Groups:  President Trump Acted Without Authority When He Ordered Arctic Drilling

Mealey's (February 18, 2020, 1:31 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Environmental groups on Feb. 13 filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals contending that a lower court correctly held that President Donald J. Trump acted “without statutory or constitutional authority when he ordered 128 million acres of permanently protected, public lands in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans to be opened to expedited, private industrial oil and gas development” (League of Conservation Voters, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Nos. 19-35460, 19-35461 and 19-35462, 9th Cir.)....