Federal agencies issue memoranda, notices, letters, bulletins, circulars, directives, and blog posts to evade the rulemaking process established by Congress in the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Executive Orders require agencies to post all guidance online within 120 days of implementation.
The executive orders allow the public to petition agencies to revoke substantive guidance, putting the burden on agencies to demonstrate the interpretive nature of their posting.
If an agency notifies a regulated party of nonconformance with guidance, it must have previously codified its process for conducting administrative investigations through APA rulemaking.
The executive orders also prohibit agencies from imposing legal consequences upon regulated parties for guidance nonconformance unless parties have received prior.
Substantive guidance is already unlawful, so another president pronouncing its unlawfulness wouldn't cure a sick system where the administrative state has metastasized into an unconstitutional fourth branch of government.
With OMB review and public petitions for revocation, these executive orders create backstops to prevent unlawful substantive guidance from slipping through the cracks.
https://reason.com/2019/10/10/trumps-new-executive-orders-to-restrain-the-administrative-state/
The Executive Orders require agencies to post all guidance online within 120 days of implementation.
The executive orders allow the public to petition agencies to revoke substantive guidance, putting the burden on agencies to demonstrate the interpretive nature of their posting.
If an agency notifies a regulated party of nonconformance with guidance, it must have previously codified its process for conducting administrative investigations through APA rulemaking.
The executive orders also prohibit agencies from imposing legal consequences upon regulated parties for guidance nonconformance unless parties have received prior.
Substantive guidance is already unlawful, so another president pronouncing its unlawfulness wouldn't cure a sick system where the administrative state has metastasized into an unconstitutional fourth branch of government.
With OMB review and public petitions for revocation, these executive orders create backstops to prevent unlawful substantive guidance from slipping through the cracks.
https://reason.com/2019/10/10/trumps-new-executive-orders-to-restrain-the-administrative-state/
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