One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive Orders Went Entirely Unnoticed I & I Editorial Board

Not long after Michelino Sunseri, a professional mountain runner, finished a race across Grand Teton last fall, he found himself on the receiving end of a Justice Department criminal charge. 

His offense? Running on a closed trail, for which he could end up serving six months in jail.

We are not making this up.
Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to prevent such gross abuses. 

It is one of the most important – and underappreciated – actions he’s taken.

• The “crime” Sunseri committed wasn’t a federal law passed by Congress. It was a crime invented by the National Park Service – one of some 300,000 federal crimes (although nobody knows exactly how many there are) that unelected bureaucrats have conjured up when writing regulations.
• What’s more, many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, which means that you don’t need to have criminal intent to be charged with a crime.

“This status quo is absurd and unjust,” Trump says in his executive order...