Elizabeth Jo

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99% Invisible · Constitution Breakdown #5: Dr. Tom Frieden · 26 Dec 2025 podcast

It's both an emphasis that the executive branch enforces the law, though that's the will of Congress.

And it's a type of constraint too that the president isn't allowed to legislate in any form, right?

Now, if you think about the present can't legislate, that's sort of basic high school civic stuff.

But what about executive orders?

I'm sure you've heard of those.

Right, but Article two says nothing about executive orders.

And Congress has no general federal statute that says, Hey, President, you can issue executive orders.

Nevertheless, it's still generally accepted that presidents have the authority to issue some executive orders.

Now, usually executive orders are directed at executive officials within the executive branch.

So it's kind of like the present telling the members of the executive branch what to do.

Well, who knows at this point?

They could do that.

But um to be legal, a president's executive order either comes from Congress giving the president some power under a federal law or alternatively the power can come from the president saying, I'm just using my Article two power.

So for the first example, in Trump's first term, remember he issued a proclamation called nine six four five that was also known as the Muslim travel ban.

That was denying entry into the United States of folks from several majority Muslim countries.

And the Supreme Court upheld Trump's executive order.

And its reason was that Congress, when it passed the Immigration and Nationality Act.

gave Trump broad authority about when and whether to suspend the entry of non citizens.

And of course Trump was doing just that, maybe for improper, subjectively horrible reasons, but he was simply doing what Congress allowed him to do.

So the court says that's an okay executive order.

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