Appearing in today’s N&R, Kathleen Parker on President Obama’s useless executive order:
The executive order promising that no federal funds will be used for abortion is utterly useless, and everybody knows it. First, the president can revoke it as quickly as he signs it.
Second, an order cannot confer jurisdiction in the courts or establish any grounds for suing anybody in court, according to a former White House counsel. The order is therefore judicially unenforceable.
Finally, an executive order cannot trump or change a federal statute.
One can reasonably surmise that Obama, a former constitutional law professor, is well aware of the uselessness of his promise. Perhaps this is why he didn’t mention it during the bill-signing ceremony Tuesday.
I think that pretty much sums up the sleaziness surrounding this whole ‘process.’ Honestly, I’m not mad, though I wonder exactly what people thought would happen when they voted for Obama.
