Enumerated + implied powers of presidency X powers of Congress
Legislation - President
EOs
o Trump’s Keystone XL Pipeline
o Exec Order: Preventing Discrimination on Basis of Gender Identity/ Sex. Orientation
o Exec Order: Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country
o Biden 32 EOs in 1 month
Signing statements
o G.W Bush used 157 statements
Vetoes – Obama used 12 w/ just one overturned
Pocket veto – HW Bush used 15 pocket veto
Override veto – Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism
Initiate amendments – Bill of Rights
Approval of budgets
o Senate passed appropriations bill extending funding led by Chuck Schumer & Mitch McConnell 69-
28. $5.8 trillion budget ($1.8bn for defence against China)
Foreign policy – President
C-in-C
o Obama - Bin Laden – no Congressional approval
o Obama - Libya – ignored disapproval
o Trump – Soleimani
Executive Agreements
o NAFTA
o Paris Climate Accords
Power of the purse – Vietnam
War Powers Resolution + AUMFs
o Denied Obama bombing Assad with AUMF
Case Act – contents of exec agreements must be published
President as head of executive branch
Nomination of branch heads
o Scott Pruit as head of EPA
Nomination of judges – ACB, Kagan
Executive privilege – Obama denied Fast & Furious by ATF, US v Nixon, exec privilege constitutional
Congress stopped Vincent Viola as Army Secretary
Exec privilege – didn’t save Nixon
Nomination of judges blocked, Merick Garland, Brown Jackson tough questioning sentencing
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