Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
Elizabeth Jo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is.
It is.
But I mean, uh part of the part of constitutional practice, of course, is always uh history.
And you know, George Washington had an executive order.
So we have lived with something that is arguably constitutional because everyone has always agreed that it's constitutional for the president to do this kind of thing, not the specific versions of them.
But nevertheless, presents are allowed to do this.
Now, in modern presidencies, unfortunately, it becomes a way for the a frustrated president to try to regulate when Congress will not do so.
And but they're always very temporary because the next administration will tend to modify or revoke completely many executive orders.
Yeah.
So now let's step back for a moment.
Article two tells us that the president of the United States has some very important powers that are just for the president alone.
The president has the duty to execute federal law.
The president commands the armed forces.
The present grants pardons.
appoints officers of the United States and negotiates treaties.
The Constitution gives this one person in the federal government all of this power.
So the question is, how do we ensure that the president, as Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers, is not a feeble executive?
How do we make sure that the president isn't hampered too much and can act in the way that Article two intended?
Well, in twenty twenty-four, of course, the Supreme Court's answer was immunity from criminal prosecution.
Right?
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