Subject: Re: Promise Broken
Executive Orders are not themselves subject to the APA - the President is allowed to say anything to the agencies that he wants. But the agencies won't be able to do any of these things unless and until they go through APA review. And because the EO's are out there, they damage the agencies efforts to actually follow the APA - since the policy has already been set without complying with the APA, it makes whatever they do afterwards vulnerable to legal challenge

That's the way it is supposed to work. But with an executive branch stuffed with boot-licking sycophants, a right wing activist SC, House and Senate in the hands of a debased Republican Party and in abject fear of Magalini, I think it may be hard to stop the abuses of power. At least in the short term. And I Trump can do enough damage to our democratic institutions, I have to wonder if our Republic can recover.