Posted on 03/30/2019 2:48:23 PM PDT by Innovative
A federal judge in Alaska has ruled an executive order by President Donald Trump allowing offshore oil drilling of tens of millions of acres in the Arctic Ocean is "unlawful and invalid."
The ruling on Friday from US District Court Judge Sharon Gleason means a drilling ban for much of the Arctic Ocean off of Alaska will go back into effect.
On April 28, 2017, Trump issued an executive order reversing three memoranda and one executive order in 2015 and 2016 by then President Barack Obama withdrawing about 125 million acres of the Arctic Ocean from oil leasing. The Obama order also prevented drilling in certain parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“Judge rules Trump executive order allowing offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean unlawful”
One of these days....
So Obama can change a policy with an executive order but Trump can’t change it back with an executive order?
No!!!!
I don’t know if executive orders are in the constitution so I cannot really give informed comment.
So I sound stupid asking why the founding fathers didn’t address the courts and the powers they should be allowed to have.
But I don’t understand it.
“What lawsuit is this a response to? “
And those filing it along with the judge should all be executed, tried then arrested....in that order.
If Trump issues a pardon that a Judge doesn’t like, can it be overturned with the individual being sent back to prison?
Alaska Ping.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Obama’s order forbidding offshore drilling went unchallenged, how about that.
Here is the law:
https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/Outer%20Continental%20Shelf%20Lands%20Act.pdf
I found references to reports being submitted to Congress, but it appears to me that the Secretary of Energy is in charge of making these lease deals and merely reports them to the president and Congress.
But it is a complex act. I can’t tell if the judge is right or not on the legality. On the other hand, it should not be possible for a president to be able to act apart from Congress in a way that a future president cannot undo. Because this would mean that Congress has abdicated its responsibility to legislate.
How many judges did Lincoln arrest, again?
What is the risk of ignoring this?
I dont see any politically at all
The left wing judiciary in collusion with the democrat party (they are one and the same) are an existential threat to the constitution.
Putin can drill anywhere in the Arctic. Did he bribe these U.S. judges? Collusion!!!
“What is the risk of ignoring this?”
Impeachment, I would think.
“All presidents have the authority to revoke or amend any executive order by a prior president.”
According to this fake judge any previous executive order in order to be revoked has to have the approval of congress? I don’t think so.
to the FakeNews, Norway is a “climate leader”!
Both Climate Leader and Oil Giant? A Norwegian Paradox
New York Times - 17 Jun 2017
Court challenge to Arctic oil drilling in Norway defeated
Financial Times - Jan 4, 2018
Norway has defeated a lawsuit brought by environmental groups trying to block drilling for oil in the Arctic...
15 March: The Barents Observer: No halt in Norway’s hunger for Arctic oil
Amid growing protests against Arctic drilling, the Norwegian government proposes 48 new oil blocks in the Barents Sea
By Atle Staalesen
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Thursday announced that it proposes drilling on additional 90 blocks, 48 of them in the Barents Sea.
“It is important to keep up the positive development with exploration in the Barents Sea, […] I hope this will lead to robust field development solutions and enhanced industrial activity in the North,” the minister adds...
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology-industry-and-energy/2019/03/no-halt-norways-hunger-arctic-oil
Norway still heavily invested in coal
World Coal-4 Mar 2019
Norway’s Oil Fund has US$7.2 billion invested in the global coal industry
to the FakeNewsMSM, China is a climate leader!
China Is a Climate Leader but Still Isn’t Doing Enough on Emissions ...
New York Times - 19 Jul 2018
28 Mar: Greenpeace Unearthed: China’s power industry calls for hundreds of new coal power plants by 2030
Under the proposal, the country could add a large coal power plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years
by Lauri Myllyvirta...
The largest power producers in China have asked the government to allow for the development of between 300 and 500 new coal power plants by 2030...
The cap would enable China to build 2 large coal power stations a month for the next 12 years, and grow the country’s capacity by an amount nearly twice the size of Europe’s total coal capacity…
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/
“According to this fake judge any previous executive order in order to be revoked has to have the approval of congress? I don’t think so.”
A good answer at post 29:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3738702/posts?page=29#29
“If the law IS written as she has indicated, it would seem to be unconstitutional. Allowing one President to invoke something with the stroke of a pen that another President cannot rescind without an act of Congress would seem unlikely to pass Constitutional muster. unlikely”
Agreed. Here’s the part of the law she’s making reference to:
“Withdrawal of unleased lands by President-
The President of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1341
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