The importance of Judges

Interesting news at gCaptain:

U.S. Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Opening Arctic, Atlantic Areas to Oil and Gas Leasing
A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing.

The decision issued late Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason leaves intact President Barack Obama’s policies putting the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea and a large swath of Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. East Coast off-limits to oil leasing.

Trump’s attempt to undo Obama’s protections was “unlawful” and a violation of the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Gleason ruled. Presidents have the power under that law to withdraw areas from the national oil and gas leasing program, as Obama did, but only Congress has the power to add areas to the leasing program, she said.

The Obama-imposed leasing prohibitions “will remain in full force and effect unless and until revoked by Congress,” Gleason said in her ruling.

Naaa - hubris in a Judge is a horrible thing. It will not require the full vote of Congress, it will just go to the Supreme Court and be overturned. As for Judge Gleason? From Infogalactic:

Federal judicial service
On April 6, 2011, President Obama nominated Gleason to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska

Besides, the District Court of Alaska is part of the loony 9th Circuit - again, from Infogalactic:

From 2010 to 2015, of the cases it accepted to review, the Supreme Court reversed around 79 percent of the cases from the Ninth Circuit

And now we have some more Originalist voices on the Court's bench. Judge Gleason, you virtue signalled, you stalled but you will lose and the drilling will bring thousands of wonderful jobs and oil revenue to the great State of Alaska.