Can President Biden create a 1/6 commission by Executive Order? nt

[Progressive Jones]

[Elessar Zappa]

1. I doubt it.

[Dan]

2. Why not?

Remember the Warren Commission - reference the Kennedy Assassination authorized by LBJ.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Just think

it’s likely a congressional issue. I’d love it if he could though.

[Dan]

4. See my edit.

[StarfishSaver]

6. The Warren Commission was authorized by a joint resolution of Congress

That's where it got its ability to compel testimony.

[Dan]

7. Let see....

https://www.bing.com/search?q=warren+commission&qs=HS&pq=warr&sc=8-4&cvid=E85BBB84AFF441DB9A156AF6EB640185&FORM=QBLH&sp=1

[StarfishSaver]

9. If you're going to use Wikipedia as a source

The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence.

[WarGamer]

14. always nice to see FACTS interjected into pure speculation... thanks SS

[StarfishSaver]

5. He could create one

If he wanted it to be anything more than an advisory commission with a very limited budget and no subpoena authority, he'd have to get Congressional authorization and appropriations. It would be pretty much a non-starter if done by executive order.

[Dan]

8. Okay, I accept that

But Biden could get things started...and sometimes all we need is to get started.

[StarfishSaver]

10. Congress has already gotten things started

And they are much farther along than Biden would likely get any time soon.

Congress is in the process of doing exactly what you seem to be calling on Biden to do. And it would take months for the Administration to put this together. This isn't 1963 and this isn't the Kennedy Assassination.

I don't understand why you're calling on Biden to get started on what Congress is already pretty far along the way in doing.

[Dan]

11. As long as the ball is rolling...

[Progressive Jones]

16. I was thinking about the resistance to this from the GOP.

[2naSalit]

12. Or the AG?

[The Magistrate]

13. That Would Be a Grand Jury, Sir

And a grand one it would be to see, too.

[lastlib]

15. President' Commission on Campus Unrest (Scranton Commission), 1970

sure he can.

[StarfishSaver]

17. True. But these kinds of Presidential Commissions are usually only advisory

Unless Congress authorizes funding and enforcement tools, there's only so much they can do.

And presidential commissions were viewed and responded to very differently in the 1960s and 70s. Things are much different now.