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The president signed a series of executive orders. Some of them actually, if tragically, are probably beyond relief—withdrawing the U.S. from both the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement. Some of them are flatly insane—renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." (Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi already are aboard with that one.) And one is so egregiously unconstitutional that Democratic attorneys general around the country already have filed suit against him.

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