“Ruh, roh, Trumpettes. We gotta be “establishment,†now states shouldn’t be allowed to control land within their borders. Trump is showing what is a squishy populist.”
I support Trump, but he’s wrong here. But I also don’t support just handing over the Federal lands to the States without some restrictions on what they can do with it. Trump’s right, the states are all in such financial disarray, that they might use divestment of these lands to cover their debt instead of dealing with the root cause of the debt. For starters, the BLM should be reined in a bunch, and have their guns taken away. Then there needs to be a rational discussion of how to properly dispose of the Federal “interest” in these lands. And when the lands are turned over to the states, there needs to be legislation severely limiting the state BLMs that will surely be created.
The "restrictions" already exist; they fall under the last -- and most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
You have no right whatsoever to "restrict" the people of Nevada or Utah or New Mexico, or anywhere else. You get to say what lands are public or private in your own state. Nothing more, nothing less. Our form of government not only does NOT give you the right to tell people in another state how to use or reserve their land, it explicitly forbids you from trying to take their right to do so away:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Period.