• ← Back to INVESTOR TIMES
  • Investing Articles
  • Financial Markets News
  • Tech News
  • Cryptocurrencies News
FREEDOM OUTPOST
No Result
View All Result
FREEDOM OUTPOST
No Result
View All Result
FREEDOM OUTPOST

How Obama Has Actually Issued More Executive Action Than Any President in Modern History

Freedom Outpost by Freedom Outpost
January 29, 2016
in News
0

Home » How Obama Has Actually Issued More Executive Action Than Any President in Modern History

During his final State of the Union, President Barack Obama addressed a series of issues, including his recent announcements of executive action on gun control. The Supreme Court is currently taking a look at whether the president has been going too far. Well, has he?

This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.

 

“What you’re not paying attention to, is the fact that I just took an action to change the law.”

That was President Obama explaining why he decided to take action on immigration because Congress wouldn’t act. The president may regret those words now that the Supreme Court is taking a look at whether his executive action on immigration went too far. It’s not just immigration where the president has been issuing large numbers of executive actions, he has also announced dozens of executive actions on gun laws over the past three years.

“No matter how many times people try to twist my words around – I taught constitutional law, I know a little about this.”

So many people have jumped on these kinds of statements, saying that Obama has no regard for the Constitution and that his executive action demonstrates that he acts more like a king than a president. In fact, lots of claims on the internet insist that Obama has issued more executive orders than any president in recent history. Is that true?

According to the American Presidency Project, Obama has signed 226 executive orders while in office compared to 291 for George W. Bush, 364 for Bill Clinton, 381 for Ronald Reagan and even Jimmy Carter who was in office for only four years signed 320 executive orders.

Presidential Executive Orders 

Jimmy Carter            320Ronald Reagan          381William J. Clinton       364George W. Bush         291

Barack Obama           226

“The truth is, even with all the actions I’ve taken this year, I’m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. So it’s not clear how it is that Republicans didn’t seem to mind when Bush took more executive actions than I did,” stated Obama.

However, that’s not the full story. While Obama has issued fewer executive orders than many other presidents, that’s actually a word game.

Obama has made prolific use of memoranda despite his own claims that he’s used his executive power less than other presidents.

He signed 33% more presidential memoranda in less than six years than Bush did in eight. He’s also issued 45% more than last Democratic President Clinton. When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president in seven decades.

So what you need to know is that if it feels like Obama is writing law from the Oval Office far more than his predecessors, he is. Obama, actually is the most since Harry Truman.

However, the other truth is that executive actions aren’t just an Obama presidency issue, they have become an executive issue. One where more and more Americans actually want a president to rule by edict and don’t see the value of checks and balances.

Article reposted with permission from Truth in Media, the opinions and views shared do not necessarily reflect the views of Freedom Outpost.

Don’t forget to Like Freedom Outpost on Facebook, Google Plus, & Twitter. You can also get Freedom Outpost delivered to your Amazon Kindle device here.

Tagged with 

ben swann executive action Executive orders immigration modern history obama obama presidency president reality check state of the union supreme court
Previous Post

1,063 Documented Examples of Barack Obama’s Lying, Lawbreaking, Corruption, Cronyism, Hypocrisy, Waste, Etc.

Next Post

These People Were Prepared During Snow Storm Jonas, but They Died Because of This Mistake

Next Post

These People Were Prepared During Snow Storm Jonas, but They Died Because of This Mistake

About Freedom Outpost

The content of this site has been restored on a non-profit basis to preserve knowledge and serve as a historical archive. All articles were originally published on freedomoutpost.com and belong to their respective authors.

Freedom Outpost was an independent journal published to cover vital public policy issues and offer a public service.

Search in the archive

No Result
View All Result

Latest posts

  • Taking Sides: The Christian's Responsibility in Civic Affairs II
  • EgyptAir MS804 Flight Attendant posted Picture on Facebook of Plane crashing a year before She Died
  • Blue Angels Marine Pilot Capt. Jeff Kuss Could Have Ejected Once He Knew His Plane Was Going To Crash…But He Didn’t
  • Man Jailed After Claiming to be ‘Transgender’ to Assault Women in Shelter
  • Trump: Democrats Against North Korea Summit Just Like They Defend MS-13 & Attack Tax Cuts

InvestorTimes.com

InvestorTimes.com is a privately funded financial publication particularly created for professional and personal investors and intellectually restless individuals.

Our raison d'être is to provide insightful information to any citizen willing to understand global economical markets and the most relevant current affairs.

Contact us: info@investortimes.com

WE ARE LOOKING FOR TALENT

INVESTOR TIMES is always open to the incorporation of talent in its team of journalists and editors. If you would like to be part of our project as a collaborator, we invite you to submit your application.

Contact us: talent@investortimes.com

INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS

Investor Times en Français

Investor Times in Deutsch

Investor Times in Italiano

Investor Times em Português

Investor Times po Polsku

Investor Times на русском языке

El País Financiero (edición en Español)

DMCA.com Protection Status

  • ← Back to INVESTOR TIMES
  • Investing Articles
  • Financial Markets News
  • Tech News
  • Cryptocurrencies News

© INVESTOR TIMES

No Result
View All Result


About Freedom Outpost

The content of this site has been restored on a non-profit basis to preserve knowledge and serve as a historical archive. All articles were originally published on freedomoutpost.com and belong to their respective authors.

Freedom Outpost was an independent journal published to cover vital public policy issues and offer a public service.

© INVESTOR TIMES