With Arctic drilling ban, Obama continues his historic abuse of power

While the Left panics over Donald Trump and the erosion of democratic norms, President Barack Obama went ahead and issued another decree without any regard for the nation’s legislative process.

It’s nothing new. Obama’s latest executive move, banning Artic drilling, folds neatly into six years of executive control. The president’s ban on drilling hinges on a provision in the 1953 the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law designed to protect marine sanctuaries. “The seldom used measure” explains NBC News, “allows” the executive to “permanently” freeze offshore drilling in specified regions.

And unlike the First, Second, Fifth or Tenth Amendments of the Constitution, which Democrats have treated as mere suggestions over the past eight years, a provision from 1953 is, like a commandment transmitted from the heavens, eternal and non-negotiable, according to the administration.