Importantly, the law authorizing this doesn’t authorize the president to reverse the ban. Trump has used it before too.
So reversing this likely means an unusual ruling from the courts, or getting congress to change things. Both possible, but take a lot more effort than simply issuing an executive order.
In many ways, the ban is symbolic… On Monday Mr. Trump called Mr. Biden’s move “ridiculous” and said he would revoke the ban. “I’ll unban it immediately,” he said on the Hugh Hewitt radio program.
Couldn’t genocide joe have done this like 4 years ago?
And if dude can just do this, can’t trump just undo?
No, the law here allows the President to designate areas as off-limits, but doesn’t provide for the President reversing such a decision. It would take either Congress changing the rules, or the courts to invalidate the rule.
So it’s a bit more than posturing.
And he didn’t need to four years ago, because he could simply not issue new drilling leases in these places.
Besides, it’s not like Biden will ever run for office again. Posturing is worthless to him right now.
I thought there was like a 60 day window where the new president can just say “nah” but anything established longer than that required a process to discourage jerking people around
That window is provided by the CRA and only applies to agency rule-making, which is not the process that Biden used here.
Also the CRA does not allow the President to say “nah”. It allows Congress to say “nah”.
