I guess this belongs in Politics & Elections, but move it if need be.
The Governor of Missouri, Mike Parson, just issued an Executive Order rescinding 177 other Executive Orders. I didn’t know that was possible, and I was upset at first because I thought it was some drastic political move, but then I went down the list. I can’t find anything to object to, actually-Can you?
Reasons for EO 24-11.pdf
Looks like they’re mostly 20-30 years old? Cleaning up obsolete cruft from old events perhaps?
Our Governor Polis recently rescinded an executive order that allowed Coloradans to kill Native Americans and seize their property.
Slightly off topic, but I assumed a sitting US president could rescind any previous president’s executive orders without restriction. Is that not the case?
Missouri famously had the Mormon Extermination Order on the books until 1976.
I bet that helped when BYU played Mizzou in football.
We should do things like that at all levels of government on a regular basis, like every 10 years or so.
I think it might be worth noting that Parson is not running for reelection, and the Republicans have nominated current Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe as their candidate.
So Parson shouldn’t need to worry about stunts to get himself reelected, and maybe he’s just cleaning house before he leaves in a way that’s actually positive (from a bipartisan perspective).
That is the case.
How sad would it be if someone resorts to good, responsible governance only when he’s not running for re-election?
Occurs quite frequently when there is a change in administrations and political parties.
You used the wrong mode. You should have said, “How sad it is that someone can resort to good responsible governance only when he’s not running for reelection.”
Well, yeah, that’s when they finally got the last one.
I didn’t read the details on what orders were revoked, and it seemed like posters were only speculating that the ones in this case were reasonable and justified. As such, I thought the subjunctive mood was called for.
Executive orders are, in general, the sole purview of the executive, and there’s bound to be plenty of previous executive orders that any given governor or president disagrees with. I don’t think it remarkable at all that they’d rescind a bunch of them en masse.
Has any other Governor rescinded anywhere near that number of Executive Orders?
NM - thought this was the Pit