On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden will “Absolutely” do a lot by executive order, “And I want him to.” Clyburn further stated
During CNN’s election coverage, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) praised 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden’s agenda on climate change and noted that Biden has “got a lot of executive authority” if he’s elected president. Inslee also
During an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) stated that if 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden is elected president, but Republicans hold the Senate, she would “note how much that Joe Biden is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the failure of Congress to strike a deal on the next round of coronavirus relief, and the subject being dealt with through executive orders is “a disaster” and represents “a
During a press conference on Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated that based on the lack of progress being made in negotiations with Congress over the next round of coronavirus relief legislation, both he and White House Chief of Staff
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign is reportedly prepping a variety of executive orders in the event that Sanders wins the Democrat nomination and defeats President Trump in November — orders that include stopping the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, legalizing marijuana, and declaring climate change a “national emergency,” according to a document obtained by the Washington Post.
Men are paid more than women in both Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign and Senate office, despite her new plan to fine and ban companies who do so, analysis shows.
California Democrat 2020 candidate Kamala Harris released a plan Monday to fine companies that don’t meet “equal pay certification” status.
Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris (D-CA) stipulated that she would first give Congress 100 days to act, and if they failed to pass new gun controls, she would do it unilaterally.
After Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives, I asked the president if he believed he could follow in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama and use the executive power of the “pen and his phone” to implement his immigration agenda.
Ten progressive judges in Virginia have decided that Muslims can ask judges to block or change the nation’s national security and immigration policies whenever prior campaign promises in democratic political elections can be described as unfair to Muslims living in America.
On Friday, Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone offered caution against President Donald Trump’s actions on illegal aliens, as he proclaimed that the church will make sure that those affected “know their rights.”
NEW YORK – Just prior to the November 2014 Midterm elections, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations held a board meeting at which the organization discussed how it can further the use of President Obama’s executive action authority to bypass Congress during Obama’s final two years in office.
Obama’s crusade to push fluid “gender identity” in schools, has caused one Texas superintendent to respond, “I got news for President Barack Obama. He ain’t my president and he can’t tell me what to do. That letter is going straight
Even before Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on Tuesday, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was looking toward the general election and planning to use executive action “go further than Obama” on gun control.
Like President Obama, Virginia Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe has just employed executive action to get around his legislature to restore voting rights to convicts.
On the campaign trail for her mother, Chelsea Clinton is both giving Hillary Clinton credit for Obamacare’s basic framework and distancing her from the boondoggle’s massive increase in costs to average Americans.
President Obama is not finished with executive actions, according to White House Chief of staff Denis McDonough.
GOP elected officials are being called to “use every legislative tool” to oppose President Obama’s newest executive action on gun control by Arizona Republicans—this in the midst of Arizona Sen. John McCain facing tough primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward.
A teary-eyed President Barack Obama compared gun control Tuesday to women’s rights, equating tighter background checks with the battle women waged to win the right to vote–as well as the fight for civil rights for black Americans.
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the White House’s newest executive actions that aim to restrict firearms.
Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-ND) says he’s ready for the fight against President Obama’s executive action on gun control, and adds he’s worried about the ramifications to society of this type of government overreach by the President of the United States.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett insisted President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive action on guns would be well within his authority and that it is the fault of Congress for the need of Obama
The Obama administration criticized members of Congress for refusing to address gun control – accusing pro-gun politicians of both parties of causing more gun deaths.
On December 18, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio referenced President Obama’s pending executive action on gun control and said executive order or not, guns will not be surrendered.
White House communications director Jen Psaki says President Obama will be reviewing executive actions he can take to go around Congress on gun control in “weeks, not months.”
As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
Speaking from Paris, France, on December 1, President Obama criticized the lack of gun control in the U.S. and pledged to remain focused on using executive action to enact new controls where possible.
The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is urging President Obama to declare a “state of emergency” and use subsequent emergency powers to institute gun controls rejected by Congress.
On November 23 Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) and 113 of his Democrat colleagues submitted a letter urging President Obama to circumvent Congress by using executive action to expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
On Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, sucker-punching the largely GOP state one last time before he leaves office, issued an executive order granting the right to vote to roughly 140,000 nonviolent felons whose sentences have been completed.
Hillary Clinton is campaigning on a war against gun stores, gun makers, and gun owners, yet she has spent decades of her life—perhaps the majority of her life—enjoying around-the-clock armed protection either for offices she occupied or those occupied by her husband Bill Clinton.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh is warning listeners: during Barack Obama’s upcoming, final year in office, the president will move ahead with whatever he desires because “he knows nobody’s gonna stop him.”
On November 17 GQ magazine published an interview with President Obama in which he indicated his last year in office will be one of “sustained attention” to gun control.
On November 12, CBS NEWS reported that “White House lawyers” are examining gun laws to find an avenue where President Obama can use executive action to go around Congress and expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
With only one year left in President Obama’s tenure, the White House continues to hint at the possibility that the President may use his executive powers to unilaterally shut down Guantánamo Bay prison without the consent of Congress.
Hillary Clinton’s proposals include extending the instant background checks indefinitely by changing the amount of time the FBI has on extended checks. She also wants to place new regulations on sales at gun shows and for guns sold online, and she wants to expand the definition of domestic violence to include dating relationships, then use that expanded definition to ban individuals from owning guns.
Washington D.C. based Immigration attorney Kyle Barella responded to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen’s (appointed by President George W. Bush) summons of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and four other immigration enforcement officials, ordering them to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for violating his court order, as Breitbart News previously reported.
The members of Congress filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit previously filed by 26 states challenging Obama’s action.
