Biden to sign executive orders rejoining Paris climate accord and rescinding travel ban on first day

[Botany]

Source: CNN

President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, on his first day in office, according to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain.

He'll also sign orders halting evictions and student loan payments during the coronavirus pandemic and issuing a mask mandate on all federal property in an effort to either roll back moves made by the Trump administration or advance policy in a way that was impossible in the current administration.

One of Biden's most common campaign trail promises was to tackle an issue on his first day in office -- a pledge he usually made to either contrast himself with President Donald Trump or highlight just how important he believed an issue to be. These promises were made on everything from climate change to immigration to foreign policy, and many are reflected in Klain's Saturday memo, which was first reported by the New York Times.

"During the campaign, President-elect Biden pledged to take immediate action to start addressing these crises and build back better," Klain writes. "As president, he will keep those promises and sign dozens of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and directives to Cabinet agencies in fulfillment of the promises he made."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-to-sign-executive-orders-rejoining-paris-climate-accord-and-rescinding-travel-ban-on-first-day/ar-BB1cOHXr?ocid=BingNews

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[twodogsbarking]

1. Can we get rid of Space Farce?

And use the money for something, well, sensible.

[AllyCat]

3. That would be great too.

[machoneman]

6. Yes, fold this into the Air Force where it belongs. Fire a few generals who agreed to Space Force!

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Like infrastructure repair

[Cheezoholic]

2. And I bet he won't hold it up in front of the cameras

with a "look at me, see how powerful I am" look on his face. He'll probably have the same look on his face as a maid walking into a hotel room after the spring breakers left.

[thesquanderer]

4. Only a dozen? Get busy, man!

There must be a whole bunch more damage you can un-do with EO, considering the hundreds of EOs Trump signed!

[deurbano]

7. Just woke up, checked the Breaking News, and started crying reading this headline.

It's been a L-O-N-G four years.

[Botany]

9. Less then 3 days / 2 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes, and 59 seconds. But who is counting?

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?p0=263&iso=20210120T12&msg=Time%20left%20until%20Trump%20leaves%20office

[deurbano]

10. I got my daughter a countdown to inauguration clock for Christmas!

https://smile.amazon.com/BigMouth-Inc-Countdown-Clock-Timer/dp/B06X9GYYZT/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=trump+countdown+clock&qid=1610910761&sr=8-2

[melm00se]

8. Still needs to be ratified

folks like this
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/to_paris_and_beyond/pdfs/YesHeCanFactsheet.pdf

are really stretching as the Paris Accords walk, talk, sound, quack, swim and fly like a treaty for it to be enforceable it has to be ratified.

There have been a bunch of law review style articles saying that the Paris Accords, from a legal perspective, clearly fall into the treaty bucket.

[karynnj]

11. It was very carefully written not to be a treaty.

There was a long article explaining a lot of the last minute work on the treaty - where the French version of the accord had an English "should" translated to "shall". That change caused the American delegation - which caught the difference to insure that the wording in both languages was "should". The reason given had to do with how far the Obama administration could go before it had to be ratified as a treaty. The entire design of the accord - per comments of people like Kerry and others - was to insure the US could join at a time when it was very clear a treaty could not pass. (Consider the Senate did not ratify the disability treaty that was written based on the US law even with Bob Dole, in a wheelchair, on the Senate floor imploring Republicans to vote for it.)

While there are right leaning lawyers who do make that argument -- note that the agreement was made in 2015 and in the entire time before Donald Trump was able to pull the US out (right after the election in November 2020), there was absolutely no effort to get the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional as done.