Well, just two weeks into his presidency, Trump has already had one of his executive orders halted by those courts. That wasn't an Obama executive order, but it was a key test of his executive authority. Republicans have repeatedly argued that Obama's use of executive authority was struck down unanimously more than a dozen times. PolitiFact in 2014 rated this claim as false; most of the cases mentioned either weren't about Obama's executive authority or originated in the George W. Bush administration. "One of the many differences between Obama and Trump is Obama understood limits of what executive order could be," Franklin said.

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2017 13:45 UTC