re: #17 lawhawk

EOs have been a fixture of Executive power for the 20th Century; if anything the number of EOs has declined significantly since FDR. Obama has issued them at a lower pace than any President since Cleveland.

Also, the overall number of EOs have declined significantly since Truman:

en.wikipedia.org

If you compare the total number of EOs issued by every POTUS from Teddy Roosevelt to Harry Truman (10,730) to the total number of EOs issued since then (3,240), it’s not even a contest. The idea that it’s somehow “out of control” now is patently false. If anything, Presidents use their power of Executive Order far more sparingly, and have done so since the end of WW2.