Empire State Today

State legislatures can challenge the validity of President Joe Biden’s recent spate of executive orders and proclamations, a host of a conservative podcast says.

“Every branch of government equally has to determine the right way to go with the Constitution, because otherwise, you don’t have co-equal branches,” Daniel Horowitz, senior editor of The Blaze and host of the Conservative Review podcast, told The Epoch Times.

For Horowitz, these executive orders are “earth shattering to do at an executive level without the input of the legislature.”

He said some orders raise questions on upholding privacy and personal liberties. He cited the executive order allowing all qualified Americans to be permitted to serve in the military, including transgender individuals.

“These are very officious and meddlesome acts,” Horowitz said.

In an apparent reaction, the North Dakota House recently enacted a law creating a joint committee that will assess compliance of federal laws and executive orders to the U.S. Constitution.

Horowitz said this assessment affirms that the legislature and executive are co-equal branches of government.   

“We have multiple units and branches of government, so each one is able to throw a white flag on the next one and say, ‘This is not OK,’“ he said. “It’s not just the courts that get to determine constitutionality.”