Mandates Are Illegal. And Untested. And Un-Upheld In Courts.
These [recent] orders are based on President Donald Trump’s declaration of national emergency under four statutes — two under the Stafford Act, two under the National Emergencies Act — as well as on his invoking of national emergency powers through the Defense Production Act. Governors in the varying states subsequently issued their own declarations of emergencies, invoking their own special and specific executive powers in the process.
[They] are not duly passed laws by elected representatives of the people. They are not pieces of legislation that are openly debated and discussed and voted upon in ways that keep the elected accountable to the people.
They don’t give the voter the chance to express yay or nay; they don’t allow the people to hold the ultimate power….The whole executive order system relies on a complicit and cowed citizenry being too blowed over by government to question, challenge or fight.