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The President is in charge of numerous organizations in practice if not in theory that enforce the laws. FBI, BATFE, DEA, and ICE just to name a few.
Executive "actions" rest on the authority delegated to the departments the President is administrating, by the Congress. For example, the BATFE has some leeway defining things under their purview.
Taking Peruta, being discussed elsewhere, for an easy tie-in the Sheriff took an "executive action" administering the California concealed carry law based on the authority delegated by the California State legislature letting him define "good cause".
And while the 9th has just told us that faithfully discharging the duties of the Sheriff's Office of San Diego County might violate the Constitution, they also showed us the proper process to resolve that conflict in the oath.
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