Comment by parineum

> I am struggling to make your criticism sound reasonable

It's pretty straightforward...

> but did give some latitude to the President to deal with crises

All the President needs to do is say it's not a crisis. If you want it to stick past the current administration, pass a law after the crisis.

Anything that's at the discretion of the executive is at the desretion of the executive. I'm not saying it's great or smart but there's zero reason to be surprised and I'll not be surprised when a bunch of Trump's orders get reversed too.