Trump has signed just five bills into law - while issuing 124 executive orders. Here is why that matters

MSN - 20/04
Trump has signed just five bills into law - while issuing 124 executive orders. Here is why that matters - The sheer volume of orders has raised concern over the expansion of the executive branch, with some critics of the president arguing that the actions risk prompting a ‘constitutional crisis’

As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days in office, he has issued a record-breaking high of 124 executive orders, while signing a record-breaking low of just five new bills into law, and caused concerns among constitutional scholars.

“These orders are extraordinary, not just in their number, but in their breadth,” said Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California- San Francisco said at a recent panel discussion. “The current state of affairs can be characterized I think with no exaggeration as a crisis, a challenge to the rule of the law in the United States.”

Others in the panel noted how many of Trump’s executive orders have pushed into areas typically run by states. Trump has set records for both his executive order t...
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