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Fiendish Thingy

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5. Trump's Executive Orders, legal or not, don't " immediately go into effect"
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 06:21 PM
11 hrs ago

First of all, EO’s only have authority over employees in the Executive Branch.

That’s it.

Any orders covering other things like how states run elections, are ignored without consequences.

In addition, EO’s attempting to control the states or others outside the Executive Branch have been met with lawsuits, which results in injunctions being issued that suspends the EO in question until a final ruling is made.

As for unlawful EO’s being ground for impeachment, well, of course they are, just as soon as Dems retake the house next year.

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