Posted on 02/07/2021 12:29:49 PM PST by blueplum
President Biden early on is touting his insistence on “ethics” from cabinet nominees and professional staff, and who can argue with that? But it will take more than a signed piece of paper to guard against the conflicts of interest and invitations to collusion that arise when professional activists from the outside suddenly find themselves on the inside, with the levers of federal power within easy reach.
...For example, Biden’s pick to advise the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is leaving her post as an Earthjustice attorney. Just last year, Earthjustice initiated a lawsuit to halt offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico under the guise of the Endangered Species Act. Who did Earthjustice sue? The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, of course. If Earthjustice is at all successful in its lawsuit, it will likely be paid by the agency. Indeed, in 2020 alone, Earthjustice received over $5.8 million in court-awarded attorneys’ fees.
Biden’s choice to be principal deputy solicitor of the Department of Interior was formerly a litigator with ...
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Surely the FBI & DOJ will instruct them in the ways of covering up their federal crimes.
I think they’ll be fine...
Oh great. Wonderful.
In a Representative Constitutional Republic, I never understood the legality of Sue and Settle. How it be legal for a litigant, court, government agency get to together and agree on a new law or “regulation”? The most that the court should be able to do is rule that an existing law or regulation is either constitutional or unconstitutional. It either stands as is, or revoked and left up to the legislative body to fix.
However, America died, and this is Oceania, so yes, I expect sue and settle to be done on steroids to avoid the need to involve Congress to vote on new laws that Oceania likely would strongly object to if they knew about it.
I had someone offer an explanation a long time ago and it went something like this: Congress created the agency so the agency has the same power as congress without having to ask permission of congress.
Now, I don’t agree with that and don’t think any sane person should agree with that, but that is what the agencies think of the power they have. Because of this, career appointees should be subject to intense scrutiny, as intense as that directed at our congress critter. But they’re not. The public rarely even knows who heads each agency and agencies seem to multiply like rabbits.
I’s so impressed with HIS ethics I can hardly stand it!!!
Bump to the top.
Important reading at the link.
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