Comment Re:Too funny (Score 1) 111
If there's no explicit or implicit threat, then not really. I mean, I suppose a President or their representative could say "Industry X, clean up your act, or I'll use my executive powers and/or petition Congress to pass new laws to force you to clean up your act." The latter is more strident, certainly is a threat, but not one that implies any unconstitutional threat (unless, of course, specific remedies are not available via Executive Powers or Congress refuses to play ball). In the case of the bully pulpit, it's the equivalent of a parent of an adult child telling them stop eating so much junk food, in the latter it's the adult parent saying "You won't be allowed to eat from our fridge and I'll ask the Johnsons not to let you scarf back their food either."