Pros And Cons Of Executive Orders

Executive orders enable the President of the United States of America to enact a pseudo-law without the need of approval from Congress. Some presidents make more use of them than others. For example, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the early 30's, took the most advantage of them due to the Great Depression. Similar to FDR, President Trump is making the most of his privilege in the White House, but in contrast to FDR's helping initiative, one of President Trump's executive orders were instituted on a discriminatory basis that benefits his many business ties.
Executive orders have a long history of being for the people of America. In early United States, “executive orders were used for such purposes as the withdrawal of public land for
The people on the Liberal or Progressive side of the political spectrum are most outraged over the Muslim and refugee ban, the building of the wall between Mexico and the USA, and the Key Stone and Dakota Access Pipeline revival. The Muslim and refugee ban, as well as the Wall, are enacted on the discriminatory belief that all Muslims are terrorists and that all Mexicans are rapists or thieves. The ban of Muslims and refugees is only directed at the Middle Eastern countries that Trump has no business ties to, which is a little odd. Why not ban all Muslims? On the other hand, the wall is estimated to cost between 12 and 15 billion dollars. This wall is pointless. Why not direct this large sum of money to actually helping the American people? Trump could improve education, healthcare, and many other things. Trump has and will waste billions of dollars just to be racist and to benefit his business
The answer is yes and no. The Constitution grants that “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” (pg. 47). This one sentence of the constitution has been disputed since as early as 1793. After over a century of dispute it is affirmed “That the president does possess “residual” or “resultant” powers over and above, or in the consequence of, his specifically granted powers to take temporary alleviative action in the presence of serious emergency.” (pg. 49). So now, what qualifies as an “emergency”? President Trump could feel that the threat of rapists from Mexico and terrorists from the Middle East is too great to ignore, thus its an emergency and he must act. In reality, Trump is authorized to build a wall and revive the pipelines going through Native Land. The thing he is not authorized to do, is ban people based on religion. The constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (Amendment 1) thus Trump has directly contradicted the constitution, some will say that this is dictator-like behavior. But here's the thing, Congress can reverse it all, that is why this nation was built on checks and balances. While the President does not need the approval from congress to instate an executive order, “his powers may be augmented by congress”(pg. 50) if they feel the President has acted