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Permanently meaning ~1 week.
Probably much more than 1 week
While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives a president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow Mr. Trump or any future president to revoke a ban.
That was tested after President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. During his first term in office Mr. Trump tried to revoke the ban. In 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska ruled that Mr. Obama’s ban could not be undone without an act of Congress.
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Maybe. That assumes the SCOTUS actually gives a damn, which they’ve routinely shown that they don’t.
It would take months to go through court system until SCOTUS finally make a decision. In the worst case, even if they overturn the decision to protect waters, it would still delay drilling.
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They could indeed. I hope not.
Does this mean the Tango Shit Gibbon will not be able to? If so why isn’t Biden moving heaven and earth for things like this?
Better to have done this than not to have done this… but the republicans have the supreme court and violently do not care about the rules. The mainstream media has also preemptively surrendered to this wave of fascism.
Given that context it feels very dangerous to engage in the fantasy thinking that these types of actions will pose more than a roadbump to fascists in power, not saying we shouldn’t do them just I think we are all still stuck in some way or another in a mode of thinking where we want to believe we can win the game by playing by rules that our enemy was specifically elected to destroy because the general population is angry and desperate.
Buckle up :(
