Amici: President Trump Lacks Authority To Open Arctic, Atlantic Oceans To Drilling

(February 25, 2020, 11:47 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Law professors who bill themselves as experts in public land law and natural resources law on Feb. 20 filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals contending that President Donald J. Trump exceeded his constitutional authority and his statutory authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) when he revoked the action taken by the Obama administration that protected the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from oil and gas exploration (League of Conservation Voters, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Nos. 19-35460, 19-35461 and 19-35462, 9th Cir.)....