Days before leaving the White House in 2016, Barack Hussein Obama decreed via executive order that large portions of the Arctic would be permanently off-limits to oil drilling ~

In the late December 2016, just a few weeks before his term of maladministration and race-baiting ended, Barack Obama decided to take one more shot at the country he despised above all others. By executive order, he banned drilling in large swaths of the Arctic. This had been done by past presidents, but always with a time lime. Obama, being the Lightworker, desired his decisions to have immortality and he banned drilling in perpetuity.

[Source: RedState]

 
Shortly after taking office, President Trump had the temerity to undo that E.O. with one of his own, re-opening drilling in Arctic areas and smaller parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
 
Well, BHO-appointed U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason was having none of it. Everyone knows Obama’s decrees were meant to be permanent. (He was after all, fundamentally transforming America.) Gleason decreed last week ~

(B)ecause Obama had intended for his ban to last forever, it could not be changed by any other president, but only by act of Congress.

Red State points out the absurdity behind this authoritarian ruling ~

The implications of this are rather stunning. The judge is saying that Obama’s decision, unlike any other president’s executive order, unlike even a regulation issued under the APA, exists in perpetuity because Obama so intended […]

 
The idea that presidents have the power to establish policies which last beyond their administration is a concept utterly foreign to American jurisprudence until January 20, 2017. I would submit that a 1953 law that is silent on the ability of one president to overturn the decisions of his successors does so because in 1953 there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the authority of a president ended when his successor was sworn into office. His policies survived only to the extent that his successors agreed with them. If that is not the case, the president has changed from “chief magistrate” to an “imperial presidency” right on to the status of Caligula Caesar who declared himself a god.

 
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Related:
Alaskans say yes to drilling in ANWR ~ Even the native American Iñupiat people support drilling ~

Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, an organization with 21 members from across the Arctic Slope region, including members from Kaktovik located inside ANWR, have voted unanimously to pass a resolution supporting oil and gas development in the 1002 area. This is an unprecedented show of unity by community leaders of the North Slope — those who live in and around the coastal plain of the refuge — and should send a clear message to America that we support development of a portion of the coastal plain.

 
‘You Completely Disregarded Us’: Native Alaskan Criticizes Democratic Lawmaker Over Closing ANWR
 
Up-dated: 4-6-19
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From a constitutional perspective, the consensus seem to be that Gleason’s decision won’t stand, but it will probably need to go all the way to SCOTUS. Brett Smith has a better solution ~ Mr. President, disregard judge’s oil-drilling ruling ~

(What the judge…) neglected to mention is that presidential executive orders, whatever their intention, once issued, remain in force until they are canceled, revoked, adjudicated unlawful, or expire on their own terms. At any time, a sitting president may revoke, modify, or make exceptions from any executive order, regardless if the order was made by the current president or a predecessor.
 
In fact, should he wish, President Trump has the authority to revoke any and all executive orders, from the first to the last, without reason or explanation.
 
His order could simply have read, “By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby revoke, in their entirety, Executive Orders 13689 and 13754.”
 
As this is the right of every sitting president, a revocation cannot be challenged by some district court flunky judge, or any other.