Donald Trump is considering a possible executive order that would require banks to make sure customers are U.S. citizens to create or keep their accounts, according to a new report.
The proposed action, reported byThe Wall Street Journal, would see banks collect information on individuals’ citizenship through requests for a new category of documents in order to open the accounts.
The Independent has contacted the White House for confirmation or further information about reports of the executive order, which has reportedly raised eyebrows among some banks in recent days.
It’s long past time to kill executive orders. Even the times they are used for good, they are often legally dubious and live on the whims of the courts.
You can’t really kill them. Technically it’s just the President saying do X or Y.
On their own, they have no effect in law.
They only instruct the Executive Branch on how to operate WITHIN existing law.
They need to go back to what they were originally intended to be. It wasn’t supposed to be a way to enact new laws, it was meant to give agencies direction on how to go about enacting and enforcing laws passed by congress.
The whole system is broken and corrupt though. So no simple fixes for any of the issues unless you consider tear it all down and start fresh as simple.
EOs should be considered dead on arrival and unenforceable unless they begin and end by listing which laws passed by Congress they’re meant to enforce and enact.
The regime actually does this, sometimes, like with the illegal tariffs. They site the law they pretend lets them do what they want to do, even when it really doesn’t.
The problem isn’t citations, it’s the legislative branch and the courts not doing their duty of oversight.