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by seoaeu 1491 days ago
> Good reminder that executive action isn’t worth the paper it’s written on either way.

That doesn’t at all follow from your previous statement that the executive orders of the last three presidents regarding private prisons have in fact been followed

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You are right, a better way to look at it would be that only the Democrat executive orders have been worthless since the federal private prison contracts that were already signed pre-Obama action (or signed during Trump admin) are not instantly dissolved by their executive action.