The most interesting question about this all to me is whether Obama's supporters are arguing in good faith or bad. Of the dozens of steps Obama announced as part of his immigration plan last month, none was accomplished by executive order. Two more recent memos directed the administration to coordinate an overhaul of the nation's immigration system - a move that congressional Republicans say exceeded his authority. They ordered federal law enforcement agencies to trace any firearmthat's part of a federal investigation, expanded the data available to the national background check system, and instructed federal agencies to conduct research into the causes and possible solutions to gun violence. Obama issued three presidential memoranda after the Sandy Hook school shooting two years ago. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration…. He's used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Obama has issued executive orders to give federal employees the day after Christmas off, to impose economic sanctions and to determine how national secrets are classified. When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman battled the "Do Nothing Congress" almost seven decades ago, according to a USA TODAY review of presidential documents. President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history - using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders. The president's real action revolves around a different type of action that's just as powerful but less understood. Forget all the hullabaloo around Barack Obama's executive orders, says USA Today's Gregory Korte.
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