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Courts aren’t part of the executive branch. Independent judiciary is supposed to mean something...

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Courts aren’t part of the executive branch. Correct but irrelevant. I can tell people things over whom I don't have directive authority. “Clarifying” regulations are exactly the executive telling the courts how the law should be interpreted. Courts can disregard them (and, in principle, will if they don't find them the issuing agency to have been empowered to enforce the law and thereby entrusted with that interpretive role, and even if they are authorized, they deference granted to them is not unlimited) but the fact that someone might not follow your direction to them doesn't mean you haven't given them direction.
  • jki275 6y ago
    No. EOs tell the EXECUTIVE BRANCH how to enforce laws. They do not tell the courts how to interpret them.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      > EOs tell the EXECUTIVE BRANCH how to enforce laws. Yes, EOs tell executive branch officers what to do. One of the things this EO tells certain executive branch officers to do is to tell the courts how to interpret Section 230 by way of adopting “clarifying” regulations.
      • jki275 6y ago
        Believe whatever you want. Courts ignore executive orders - especially ones from republican presidents, essentially always.