Reply To: Executive Orders

#21083
gutzmank
Participant

If by “unconstitutional acts of Congress” you mean “statutes,” a president cannot do this. A president can veto a bill, but if Congress passes it over his veto, he can go to court about it or refuse to defend it when some state or citizen goes to court about it; rarely — only in extreme cases — is he justified in ignoring it on the ground that it’s unconstitutional.