The first thing reporters and experts wondered when Trump announced his executive actions, was, can he do that? When he announced he was signing executive actions, which he kept referring to interchangeably with law, no reporters had read them. Barack Obama used his own riff on executive action to give the children of undocumented immigrants temporary protected status. The leverage part didn't really work, and the Supreme Court said Trump violated his authority by trying to end it. At the time, Trump was talking about another executive action, one that will force insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.

Source: CNN August 09, 2020 12:22 UTC