Posted on 12/19/2016 5:42:01 PM PST by artichokegrower
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide latitude to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced. Until now the law has been used sparingly to preserve coral reefs, walrus feeding grounds and marine sanctuaries.
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Trump just needs to mention (not publicly) that there will be some investigations on Obama.
Just let the drilling happen. Trump can enforce the ban as Obama has enforced immigration law.
Congress can repeal any law if it has the will to do so.
Grrrr - I hope you are wrong. Obama is obviously not going quietly into the night. He’s breaking all the china and everything he can get his grubby hands on to hurt our country.
OTOH, since one Congress cannot bind a future one, all that needs to happen is for the next Congress to repeal the prior law. Effectively, Congress would rescind this order, and Trump would carry the recinding, based on the new law, out.
“Trashing the room just before checkout time”
I’d say it’s more like Section 8 tenants just before the eviction.
I think a shadow government would be the very definition of sedition.
For some reason I have lost faith that this will happen, even now that they have all the stars lined up that they complained they lacked to do anything previously to stop Obama. 8>p
I assume that the current Congress IS aware that that they have the power to begin impeachment proceedings against this unhinged Kenyan??
Something to keep him otherwise occupied and prevent any more irrational lashing out attempting to prevent the new president from exercising his legitimate Constitutional powers without irrational interference from anyone.
It’s our job to help them find the will to act.Two years and the recalcitrant will be shown the door.
Meaningless. We are awash in oil and gas. If we are ever in trouble and need it, that law won’t mean a thing when it becomes a matter of national security.
This is good news, not bad. Those resources are just money in the bank.
Yes, and Trump won't have the authority to undo anything that Obama has set his pen and phone to......
I tell ya...it's getting downright comical lately.
...as well as an enemy islamist homo.
Juvenile or mentally disturbed lashing out.
Let’s see if he can trash Trump Tower.
So...amend the law. Done all the time.
Are these waters covered by the law, since Alaska joined the union years later?
-PJ
If it is done by a law, the law can be undone.
The US purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867—Seward’s Folly.
It became a state in 1959, as did Hawaii.
Sometimes not.
For example, if Obama orders all US forces out of Guantanamo, the Cubans can simply walk in, and rent it to the Sovs, PRC, Iran or the Norks. No one is going to war to get Guantanamo back.
Likewise with pardons. They are absolute and irrevocable, although they can be refused (because accepting one is tantamount to an admission of guilt.) Pardons are so absolute that even if it can be proved they were obtained through bribes, the pardon still stands.
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