Executive Orders aren't legislation. They are instructions that the white house makes to executive branch agencies. So the president can issue new executive orders that change or reverse older executive orders made by themselves or past presidents.
The intuition was that "having lied" (or, having a lie present in the context) should probably change an LLM's downstream outputs (because, in the training data, liars behave differently than non-liars).
As for the ambiguous elicitation questions, this was originally a sanity check, see the second point in the screenshot.
Executive Orders aren't legislation. They are instructions that the white house makes to executive branch agencies. So the president can issue new executive orders that change or reverse older executive orders made by themselves or past presidents.