Days after President Biden told world leaders that his administration is committed to slowing climate change with “action, and not words,” his Interior Department oversaw one of the largest oil and gas lease sales in American history.
Yes, they lost a lawsuit and were forced to do it. Per your article:
Shortly after taking office, Biden announced a temporary pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, pending a review of their impact on the worsening climate crisis. Roughly a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from fossil fuel extraction from public lands.
More than a dozen Republican-led states filed a lawsuit challenging the pause, saying it would cause undue harm to the energy industry and state economies that are reliant on fossil fuel production.
Earlier this summer, a federal judge in Louisiana sided with those states, issuing a nationwide preliminary injunction. The Biden administration is appealing that decision but agreed to resume lease sales in the interim. Additional lease sales are scheduled in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and other Western states early next year.
We’re not supposed to have a temporary dictatorship of the President, but competing spheres of power. This is a great example of that.
The primary is also not a legal election, it’s a private club that is legally allowed to choose whatever candidate they want for whatever general election ballot they choose. They are also legally allowed to rig the primary throwing out any votes they want, for any reason they want or just ignoring them. So given that the two major parties, that you will certainly vote for, can choose any candidate they want ignoring your opinion, what leverage do you have?
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056713397/the-biden-administration-sold-oil-and-gas-leases-days-after-the-climate-summit
Cool.
Yes, they lost a lawsuit and were forced to do it. Per your article:
We’re not supposed to have a temporary dictatorship of the President, but competing spheres of power. This is a great example of that.
Super cool how it’s illegal to stop destroying the planet. Fuck your “competing spheres of power.”
So join me in working to get congress and the judiciary on board with doing the right thing.
Why would they do that? You are going to vote blue no matter who anyway, so what leverage do you have?
US elections have two parts. A primary challenge is a great way to move policy without endangering your position in the general
The primary is also not a legal election, it’s a private club that is legally allowed to choose whatever candidate they want for whatever general election ballot they choose. They are also legally allowed to rig the primary throwing out any votes they want, for any reason they want or just ignoring them. So given that the two major parties, that you will certainly vote for, can choose any candidate they want ignoring your opinion, what leverage do you have?
But the Democratic Party in fact respects primary election results if you get the votes.