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Today, Trump signed an executive order to remove protections from two National Monuments in Utah, one of them on sacred Navajo grounds. In doing so, without any consultation with Navajo tribes, he said, “I’ve come to Utah to take a very historic action to reverse federal overreach and return the rights of this land to your citizens”
We provide the translation as a public service to those who don't speak fluent Trumpese. By "reverse federal overreach," he means "commit federal overreach." By "this land", he means "public land that currently belongs to all citizens" By "your citizens," he means "gas & oil developers"
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Douglass Abramson
12/4/2017 10:06:14 pm
The lawsuits, three that I've seen so far, should be interesting. The Antiquities Act only empowers the President to unilaterally create monuments and parks from public land. Nothing in the text seems to empower the office to do the reverse. Frankly, I doubt the Progressive Movement Republicans who wrote the law would have conceived that a President would ever want to; much less try. TR probably have horse whipped anyone who even suggested such a thing.
Robert Elisberg
12/5/2017 07:24:16 am
Right. I had a difficult time explaining this on social media to Trumpets who seemed instead to prefer using words like "idiot," "moron" and "libtard" and admonishing me to read the Constitution (which I'm, of course, quite sure *they* have done...) His action may hold, but there certainly substantive grounds for challenging it. Leave a Reply. |
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