Reply #86: He can't issue an EO to ignore a law. I already showed why he can't. [View All]

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Any EO that strikes at any part of DADT would be inherently invalid because it would go against a national law.

To be fully ironclad legal, with very little chance of the USSC mucking it up, Congress itself must pass a law that overturns DADT. Just like they did with Prohibition. Funny, why didn't FDR overturn Prohibition with an EO?

Because Prohibition was an established law, just like DADT. It required an act of Congress, not the President, to repeal it.

Any EO that FDR would have done that lessened Prohibition would have been invalid, just like any EO that lessens DADT would be invalid.