Lawsuit against Trump appointees

[Irrelevant]

Lawsuit Seeks Removal Of Trump Lands Appointees

In a lawsuit filed Monday, conservationists allege the Trump administration's unprecedented use of non-confirmed directors at the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management violates law.

www.npr.org

Just sharing.

 

[LuketheDog]

A laughable expenditure of time and money for everyone but the lawyers handling it, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank...

 

[Trial153]

Their money their law suit. Why not prevent it by making the appointments permanent and going through the review process.

 

[Big Fin]

Their money their law suit. Why not prevent it by making the appointments permanent and going through the review process.

At Department of Interior, it is a simple reason - the person now acting as BLM Director, due to that position being vacant, would never get approval in Congress. And, many in Congress don't want to have a vote on such a controversial person as is Pendley in an election year. In states where critical races are being fought, public land issues can sway the election results. Having a confirmation vote on a guy of his background would sort out the buckwheat from the bullshit as far as who really cares about public land policy. Some want to avoid that sorting of the BW and BS, hoping to hide in the mire.

Think Colorado and Montana where to very big Senate races are happening. They would need the votes of those two Senators for confirmation, but an affirmative confirmation vote would be a public declaration of abuse on the public land advocates, so a vote is being avoided at all costs. Pendley would struggle to get confirmed as village drunk in those two states, but he is allowed to operate as defacto BLM Director as a result of an orchestrated effort to game the system via a series of temporary reappointments to a position not requiring Congressional approval and by leaving the positions above him vacant.

Legal/illegal? Hard to say, and thus would make this lawsuit hard to win.

Chickenshit? Definitely. And those running for re-election are complicit in the chickenshit pocket pool game. I won't be forgetting that come November. And I will be reminding anyone who is interested enough to ask.

 

[Trial153]

At Department of Interior, it is a simple reason - the person now acting as BLM Director, due to that position being vacant, would never get approval in Congress. And, many in Congress don't want to have a vote on such a controversial person as is Pendley in an election year. In states where critical races are being fought public land issues can sway the election results. Having a confirmation vote on a guy of his background would sort out the buckwheat from the bullshit as far as who really cares about public land policy. Some want to avoid that sorting of the BW and BS, hoping to hide in the mire.

Think Colorado and Montana where to very big Senate races are happening. They would need the votes of those two Senators for confirmation, but an affirmative confirmation vote would be a public declaration of abuse on the public land advocates, so a vote is being avoided at all costs. Pendley would struggle to get confirmed as village drunk in those two states, but he is allowed to operate as defacto BLM Director as a result of a orchestrated effort to game the system via a series of temporary reappointments to a position not requiring Congressional approval and by leaving the positions above him vacant.

Legal/illegal? Hard to say, and thus would make this lawsuit hard to win.

Chickenshit? Definitely. And those running for re-election are complicit in the chickenshit pocket pool game. I won't be forgetting that come November. And I will be reminding anyone who is interested enough to ask.

Politicians being Politicians

 

[Big Fin]

Politicians being Politicians

True. And, depending on the topic the "names and affiliation of the operatives" could be interchangeable.

 

[88man]

A positive in the article is Pendley says The sale/transfer of Public land is not part of Trumps agenda.

 

[furness]

A positive in the article is Pendley says The sale/transfer of Public land is not part of Trumps agenda.

Which is great, unless he's lying

 

[Gr8bawana]

Which is great, unless he's lying

Now that's funny!

 

[Straight Arrow]

Now that's funny!

Unless he is lying!