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Because congress basically abdicated its responsibility to govern years ago? Consider immigration reform: virtually everyone in congress agrees that something
by mauvehaus 2y ago
Because congress basically abdicated its responsibility to govern years ago?
Consider immigration reform: virtually everyone in congress agrees that something needs to be done, but nothing gets done, so everything happens by executive action. DACA, for example, probably never should've been done at the executive branch (and I say this as someone who is basically in agreement with its intent). And then when the administration changes, everything is in upheaval in the form of lawsuits and uncertainty for the actual people on the ground affected by the changes.
None of this is new; it's just gotten more visible through the first Trump administration. Who knew the plural of Attorney Generals was Attorneys General or the name of the Administrative Procedures Act prior to 2017?
Regardless of how you feel about him as president, you can't say he's unwilling to loudly make sweeping changes at the executive level. His supporters seem to view the lawsuits as evidence that their guy is doing what they voted for him to do.