Nevertheless, the ubiquity of these documents belies their rather obscure legal foundations and the contestable contours of their legal authority.
Bush established the Office of Homeland Security through EO 13228. You can track presidential actions yourself using the “Presidential Actions” app, available for free on your preferred platform.) Executive orders, however, are nothing new-Franklin Roosevelt’s 1942 authorization of Japanese-American internment came via EO 9066, Harry Truman temporarily seized American steel plants under the auspices of EO 10340, and George W. Now, however, many of us are on a “first-number” basis with EO 13769, President Trump’s notorious travel ban, and have grown accustomed to tracking his rollouts of new EOs. Law Review’s Online Department certainly weren’t.
This project will focus on three areas: Executive Orders, the First Amendment, and insurance.īefore January 27, 2017, you may not have been a regular executive-order watcher-the folks here at N.Y.U. The Sources of Law project is an examination of the origins and hidden ways that important legal authorities impact our lives without us fully understanding why or how.
