Posted on 03/18/2021 2:25:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Legal Insurrection reports that 21 states are suing to block Joe Biden’s executive order that halted the Keystone XL pipeline.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 19 other state attorneys general filed suit today in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to block President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and illegitimate attempt to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXLP).
Despite several exhaustive studies undertaken by the Obama State Department that concluded the Keystone XL pipeline would boost the U.S economy, create American jobs, and safely transport oil throughout the country without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, Biden revoked the permit via executive order mere hours after reciting his oath of office. However, he did not have the power to do so.
The substance of the lawsuit is straightforward. Congress, not the president, regulates interstate commerce. Biden violated that when he unilaterally blocked the construction of the pipeline. As has been Biden’s MO since the inauguration, he failed to even consult Congress or any of the states affected by the decision. He has done the same with regard to the border, and is now facing a massive crisis of his own making there.
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I’m sure they won’t have standing, or it will be moot.
Josef Stolen does not even know what the Keystone Pipeline is!!!
Ever since SCOTUS has redefined “standing” I’m not sure that any law applies to anybody anymore anyhow.
Good luck. Scotus is the fourth political institution of our ruling government. As a group they are scared to death to upset a woke democrat party.
The Marxocrats own the courts. Playing “lawfare” with a corrupt legal and judiciary system is a sucker’s game and doomed to fail. The people of the states that want the pipeline and the wall need to demsnd that their Governors and state representatives just do what they want without kissing the azz of an illegitimate, tyrannical junta in DC. Nullification,non-compliance and secession is the only way forward for those states that still value their freedom and liberty. GOPee Delenda Est!
need a few more yet
How does the federal government tell a state what to do within their borders?
It seems to me that the states can act in a coordinate fashion, independent of the federal government, and build that pipeline. Get it down to the already existing Texas ports and away goes the oil.
What are the other 19 states? The article doesn’t say.
This is so un-Constitutional it smacks of tyranny. The Exec. Branch does not have the authority to counter established laws.
States shouldn’t be compelled to obey EOs that contradict actual laws.
The lawsuit would have had some teeth imo before the ill-conceived 17th Amendment was ratified, especially since Senate confirms judges.
Oh well.
Need to do same re wall contracts.
21 States by my count.
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https://media.dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/TX-and-MT-v.-Biden-Complaint.pdf
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STATE OF TEXAS;
STATE OF MONTANA;
STATE OF ALABAMA;
STATE OF ARIZONA;
STATE OF ARKANSAS;
STATE OF GEORGIA;
STATE OF KANSAS;
STATE OF KENTUCKY;
STATE OF INDIANA;
STATE OF LOUISIANA;
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI;
STATE OF MISSOURI;
STATE OF NEBRASKA;
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA;
STATE OF OHIO;
STATE OF OKLAHOMA;
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA;
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA;
STATE OF UTAH;
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA;
STATE OF WYOMING
The former is turning a blind eye to the law-breaking (like not arresting illegal entry), while the latter is stopping people from acting lawfully (like building a pipeline)
-PJ
Except mask “laws”. They apply to everybody at all times
I like the way you think, Jonty30 !
We'll see what happens. Trump authorized the Keystone Pipeline through an executive memorandum mandating its construction so it would stand to reason that Biden can revoke authorization through the same manner. We'll see what happens.
Just do me a kindness and build that pipeline towards Alberta, so Alberta can get its oil down there as well, for when things change for the better for it. :)
Cancel hell. The Republican governors of those states (including Kristi Noem) should grow some balls and issue executive orders to continue the construction.
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