Executive Orders: Issuance, Modification, and Revocation

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Attached is a document from Congressional Research Service from 2014 by Vivian S Chu, Legislative Attorney and Todd Garvey, Legislative Attorney.

Summary


Executive orders, presidential memoranda, and proclamations are used extensively by Presidents

to achieve policy goals, set uniform standards for managing the executive branch, or outline a

policy view intended to influence the behavior of private citizens. The U.S. Constitution does not

define these presidential instruments and does not explicitly vest the President with the authority

to issue them. Nonetheless, such orders are accepted as an inherent aspect of presidential power.

Moreover, if they are based on appropriate authority, they have the force and effect of law. This

report discusses the nature of these written instruments, executive orders in particular, with a

focus on the scope of presidential authority to execute such instruments, as well as judicial and

congressional responses to their issuance.

This was linked to from an article in, I think, Washing Post.

Mods: maybe you want to sticky the attachment since it come up fairly often.