President Donald Trump has signed more than 135 executive orders during his first 100 days in office. (Getty Images)
"So much of the power in the federal government is now housed in the executive branch, and so this is really a sign that the president can implement a very vast and sweeping agenda through executive actions," Broughel said. "And so I would expect future presidents to probably follow Trump's lead on this."
These first 100 days are critical to setting the president’s agenda and driving media coverage of these initiatives — and that becomes more and more challenging as the term progresses, Broughel said.
"These initial directions coming early are very important, because you'll run out of time in your presidency if they're not, if it's not set out early," Broughel said.
Additionally, the Trump administration has advanced this plethora of executive orders because it had four years out of office to prepare and plan administrative priorities, according to Thomas Berry, the director of the libertarian think tank Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies.
Berry said it is evident that the Trump administration has thought about what issues it wanted to target in the executive orders for a long time and that many of them are focused on dismantling hurdles he faced during his first term. That includes executive orders that ease restrictions on firing federal employees, Berry said.
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A view of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"It's making it hard for the judicial branch to keep up," Berry said. "It's taxing courts to the limit, and it's forcing courts to act fast, and the judicial branch doesn't act as functionally when it's forced to act really fast."
"To some extent, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy when Trump complains about judges ruling without much law or deliberation," Berry said. "It's because the administration is kind of forcing them to by taking all these actions with immediate effect and not doing the normal time for deliberation."
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Berry anticipates that the pace of the executive orders will slow in the near future though since the majority of the ones that emerged during the first 100 days appeared to be pre-planned.
"They will, they will run out, I expect, certainly by the end of his first year, if not in the next few months, and then any remaining ones would be reactive," Berry said.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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