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A president can only do with his pen or with executive orders what congress lets him do. A president can choose to ignore certain laws, choose to enforce some and not others and change laws to suit his whims if congress lets him. A president can do just about anything he wants if congress lets him. Congress as a co-equal branch of government can reign in any president in if they are willing to do so and make him abide by the powers stated in the Constitution if they want to.
Congress can make any president walk a tight rope or they can let him do anything he wants. The problem today is members of a president’s party in congress have become more a member of the president’s administration than a member of congress. Those members of the president’s party are not interested in keeping the powers stated in the constitution in congress. They are more than willing to cede those powers to the administration only because the president is of the same political party. They take no pride or responsibility of being congressmen and or a member of that august body and upholding that once proud institution’s status as a co-equal branch of government. Hence the imperial presidency who will use his pen and executive orders to bypass congress.
Since the congress of 1975-77 which reigned in the powers of the presidency, every president since that has added more powers to the presidency and congress has less and less. But it is congresses fault for letting each succeeding president add to the powers of the presidency.
Congress can make any president walk a tight rope or they can let him do anything he wants. The problem today is members of a president’s party in congress have become more a member of the president’s administration than a member of congress. Those members of the president’s party are not interested in keeping the powers stated in the constitution in congress. They are more than willing to cede those powers to the administration only because the president is of the same political party. They take no pride or responsibility of being congressmen and or a member of that august body and upholding that once proud institution’s status as a co-equal branch of government. Hence the imperial presidency who will use his pen and executive orders to bypass congress.
Since the congress of 1975-77 which reigned in the powers of the presidency, every president since that has added more powers to the presidency and congress has less and less. But it is congresses fault for letting each succeeding president add to the powers of the presidency.