“I‘m gonna be working with Congress where I can,” President Obama said in early 2014. “But I’m also gonna act on my own if Congress is deadlocked. I’ve got a pen to take executive actions where Congress won’t.”

The former president lived up to this promise, issuing a barrage of executive orders, rules, regulations and other administrative actions. He sometimes seemed to be a super-legislator rather than an executive, rewriting Obamacare, the Clean Air Act and many other laws on his own.

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