How to Stop Presidential Executive Order Ping-Pong

Presidential executive orders can be overturned by new presidents. Biden entered office and immediately issued a flurry of 43 executive orders reversing President Trump’s orders from his first term. It’s reported Trump has 100 executive orders ready for signature on inauguration day and many will reverse Biden’s orders. (Hazard, Trump to sign roughly 100 executive orders after being inaugurated: report, 2025) This is Executive Order Ping-pong and it creates confusion and unnecessary waste.

How can we make permanent the positive changes the voters of the 2024 election said they wanted? One answer is by calling a Convention of States to amend the Constitution. What would a Convention of States do to make positive lasting changes that would prevent our country from falling off a fiscal cliff? Here’s an example.

Recently Mark Zuckerburg, CEO of Meta, divulged to Joe Rogan how the Biden administration pressured his company to censor what the administration called “misinformation” about the Covid-19 virus and the jab (vaccine). (Hazard, Zuckerberg tells Rogan the Biden administration pushed Meta to censor memes, satire about COVID, 2025)

They pressured Meta staff to squash the skepticism about vaccines. (White House official demanded Facebook squelch 'general skepticism' of vaccines, 2025) While Twitter stood up against the pressure from the administration, Zuckerberg (Meta and Facebook) censored.

"All these different agencies and branches of government started coming after our company. It was brutal," Zuckerberg said. “These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse. It just got to this point where we were like, 'No, we're not gonna, we're not gonna take down things that are true. That's ridiculous.'”

This quote makes it sound like Meta resisted the censor demands from the Biden administration. They didn’t. Instead, Meta “fact checkers” slapped “misinformation” warning labels on 50 million Covid posts which later turned out to be true. (Post Editorial Board, 2025)

This week Zuckerberg announced Meta would end fact-checking and instead replace that practice with a system of community notes like Twitter (x.com). Can we really trust Zukerberg and Meta when they act based on pressure and not principle?

A carefully prepared, thoroughly debated policy based on principles, not outside pressure, would increase trust. Carefully designed principle-based policies that are aligned with a clear purpose and clear vision would add long-term value to the Meta platform and to its customers. This is what Convention of States can do for our country. For example, a carefully debated long-term and principled solution to serious issues such as preventing government overreach (pressuring social media companies to censor free speech) would protect the electorate and the economy.

What is COS?

Our founders were wise enough to realize the Constitution may need to be amended from time to time to keep the country healthy and successful. As Mark Levin explains in his book The Liberty Amendments, the country has moved away from its original constitutional order and that order needs to be restored. (Levin, 2013) In the past 236 years since our Constitution was adopted, it’s been amended 27 times. Amending the Constitution on critical issues is one way to avoid Presidential Executive Order Ping-pong.

Article V of our beloved Constitution provides two options for adopting amendments. The first method lies with Congress. When a vote of two thirds of both houses agrees an amendment is needed, the amendment can be adopted with a yes vote of three fourths of both houses. This is how the adoption of 27 amendments occurred.

The second method lies with the states acting. Two thirds of the State Legislatures can vote to call a convention. Each state sends representatives (not necessarily legislators) to the convention. Amendments are proposed and two thirds of the states must vote to move the specific amendment back to the states (each state gets only one vote) where three fourths of the state legislatures (both houses) must vote yes for the adoption.

Issues to be addressed by COS

The Convention of States initiative will focus on only three main themes for improvement. These three themes have been identified to create long-term positive change.

· Setting term limits: 28% of senators have served more than 3 terms. 44% of House members have served more than 4 terms. (Govtrack.us, 2025) Term limits could be set for bureaucrats also. Dr. Anthony Fauci oversaw the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) for 38 years. During his leadership America has seen a significant slide in the health of its citizens.

· Reducing government overreach has numerous examples. Censoring the public about the Covid-19 vaccine by pressuring social media companies is just one example.

· Apply fiscal restraints on government spending. We have a spending problem which has created a national debt of over $36 Trillion.

Summary

Executive orders have their place. When newly elected presidents cancel the previous president’s orders, chaos, confusion, and a reduction in the public’s confidence in the economy can result.

Ping-pong is a fun game. It is not fun when it involves Presidential Executive orders. And when there is no plan to institute long-term positive change either by legislation or the more robust method of amending the Constitution to address serious issues our country suffers. Because it’s doubtful (or most probably impossible) for Congress to make these system changes to limit their out-of-control powers, a Convention of States is needed. Find out more about how you can help: Convention of States.

Works Cited

Govtrack.us. (2025, January 10). Members of Congress. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

Hazard, C. (2025, January 11). Trump to sign roughly 100 executive orders after being inaugurated: report. Retrieved from https://justthenews.com/: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-sign-roughly-100-executive-orders-after-being-inaugurated?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Hazard, C. (2025, January 11). Zuckerberg tells Rogan the Biden administration pushed Meta to censor memes, satire about COVID. Retrieved from https://justthenews.com/: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/mark-zuckerberg-tells-rogan-biden-administration-pushed-meta-censor-memes?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Levin, M. (2013). The Liberty Amendments. January: Simon And Schuster.

Post Editorial Board. (2025, January 7). Don’t let Facebook off the hook for its pro-censorship past so easily. Retrieved from https://nypost.com/: https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/opinion/dont-let-facebook-off-the-hook-for-its-pro-censorship-past-so-easily/

White House official demanded Facebook squelch 'general skepticism' of vaccines. (2025, January 10). Retrieved from https://justthenews.com/: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/jill-biden-stfu-clip-whatsapp-conversations-targeted-white-house-censorship