Obama's Executive Orders list

I am starting this thread on ATS to keep track of executive orders signed by Obama, this will be updated as orders are signed and can be used as reference here on ATS.

Executive Order -- Presidential Records


Executive Order -- Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel

-Kdial1

Congrats to the OP. This thread is a great idea.

Here is a link to the White House website which lists presidential executive orders. The list is hot linked to individual orders which can be read on the site.

www.whitehouse.gov...



[edit on 23-1-2009 by ipsedixit]

EXECUTIVE ORDER -- ENSURING LAWFUL INTERROGATIONS

EXECUTIVE ORDER -- REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS

EXECUTIVE ORDER -- REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES

-Kdial1

Too bad the president himself doesn't have to follow his own executive orders and pretty much dictates what the law is anyway, according to the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) within the Department of Justice.

www.projectcensored.org...

On December 7, 2007, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, disclosed on the floor of the US Senate that he had declassified three legal documents of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) within the Department of Justice that state:

1. An executive order cannot limit a president. There is no constitutional requirement for a president to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order. Rather than violate an executive order, the president has instead modified or waived it.

2. The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President’s authority under Article II.

3. The Department of Justice is bound by the President’s legal determinations.

Whitehouse said, “These three Bush administration legal propositions boil down to this: one, ‘I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them’; two, ‘I get to determine what my own powers are’; and three, ‘The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is.’”

Doncha' just hate lawyers.



[edit on 18-2-2009 by ipsedixit]