Executive orders Quote by Fabrizio Moreira

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

— Tim Kaine

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

— Tim Kaine

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by…

— Richard Shelby

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like…

— Tim Kaine

Presidents and governors have increasingly relied on executive orders to address policy problems. The inefficiency of our nation's laws and regulatory codes are part…

— Jon Husted

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

— Charles Krauthammer

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

— Scott Pruitt

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

“If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might…

— Gary Hansen

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

— Scott Pruitt

Why should we allow a Democrat President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same with a Republican President?

— Mark Meadows

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express…

— Prashant Bhushan