im no lawyer but i struggle to see how this holds up to legal challenges? this is private industry on private land. Surely this will be overturned? I could understand how the feds had jurisdiction over the offshore leases - the federal govt owns that territory. But this?
That seems hypocritical in light of the crowing about eliminating red tape and regulation. Is there any ideological explanation for going against what was previously conservative doctrine, or is this Trump personal authoritarianism?
I do know the answer, my question was rhetorical. Conservatives have bent the knee before Trump, and essentially anointed him as an autocrat. In doing so, virtually all conservatives have abandoned most of the principles of "movement conservatism". Small, local government, judicial restraint, fiscal conservatism, self responsibility and self reliance, checks-and-balances between branches of government have all been at best abandoned, but mostly reversed. Previous to Trump, we were all (including especially the press) told to treat these as almost sacred principles to conservatives, things they could not possibly cut deals on or minimize or compromise. Demanding that conservative's beliefs be treated as sacred has been revealed as a rhetorical device, given the rapidity of a complete reversal. The conclusion forced upon us all is that previous to Trump, conservatives were lying about how important those principles were to them. The very tenuous hold is apparent, revealing the hypocritical nature of the "moral high ground" that conservatives demanded for themselves.
yep it turns out modern conservatives have no principles at all. They are not sincere in any belief, all will be contradicted or discarded in a second if the leader says so. Makes debate futile, the arguments stand on nothing but spite.
