Here in washington for his inauguration today. It is 6 00 a. M. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today coming to you live from washington. Im tracey davidson. Im vai sikahema. You can see in our screen were six hours away from the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states. Falls on a friday. Doesnt always happen that way. Feels like its a holiday. The last time it fell on a friday was George Herbert walker bush and the last two inaugurations obamas fell on a tuesday and monday. So kind of unique its on a friday. Really nice. We have your covered with everything happening, but before we dive in, want to get you caught up on friday forecast. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley has the most accurate forecast for you, bill. It is cold start this morning. The temperatures are below freezing and still falling at this hour. Philadelphia now 33 degrees. Look at the 20s for the suburbs. 29 and 29 also in the lehigh valley. For new jersey, its 31 degrees to start with. Co
Is there a number of times that they get to do this . Thats a good and tough question. Its so tough that i decided not to use the mike. Thats a good and a tough question. What the law provides, what the administrative procedure act provides is that a court can compel an agency to take action of the delay taking when its been unreasonably delayed. Unreasonable is not a precise term but i dont know how it can be written in any other manner. It depends on what the circumstances are. And as i indicated, there have been times when courts have told agencies its now time to get your act together and do this. Those cases have been rare and involve much longer delays than the current one and they involve powerful evidence that the agency is not merely trying to force a law in, its not trying to enforce it at all. As i said, and as professor turley noted, there have been cases of administration sitting on their hands and not carrying outlaws and that clearly is illegal and unconstitutional. Its
Fit with reality. Congress general capacity over funding the executive branch of the government gives Congress Lots of authority to rein in the president. President s have used their Statutory Authority in very large ways. The framers of the constitution came close to giving us a legislatively centered government. But in august of 1787 in a very dramatic period at the very end of the Constitutional Convention led by governor morris of pennsylvania, rufus king of new york, they gave the president independent authority. They gave the president for the first time the authority to negotiate treaties. They gave the president the power to nominate judges, which previously had been the purview of the senate in earlier drafts. They created an independent executive branch because they saw that this government was going to be entrusted with large responsibilities, and you needed a strong executive. Thats what weve seen through washington and lincoln and roosevelt and others, that this country se