[ajdlinux]

I don't understand this whole obsession about the evils of executive orders. The making of an executive order is simply the invocation of a power that is either constitutionally or legislatively granted to the President and the Executive Branch. There are plenty of areas where it is absolutely appropriate to grant the executive branch authority to make decisions, issue policy memoranda, make regulations/subsidiary legislation, and so on.

The problem is only when said executive actions are either a) ultra vires (beyond the power that the law grants to the executive to make these decisions) or b) completely insane. In the case of this particular executive order, it may well be both.

[pmoriarty]

Must everything that's legal be unobjectionable?

Would you see nothing wrong with segregation, Jim Crow, and slavery? All of those were perfectly legal in the United States at one point.

[dllthomas]

I think the parent agrees with you. The rhetoric around executive orders recently has spilled over from "I disagree with these particular executive orders" to "executive orders are inherently evil." In the Republican primary we saw people promising to repeal every existing executive order (because purple hearts and executive-branch pay scales are bad?). The parent was objecting to this, while certainly allowing that particular orders may be a problem.

[ajdlinux]

Indeed! There's a tonne of things which rightly fall within the domain of the executive to make regulations, I happen to think that this immigration order goes way too far - and indeed even if it was made by the legislature it would still be immoral. I agree that legal != unobjectionable, of course!