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To: kindred

“The Antiquities Act gives the president the authority to create monuments, but does not provide explicit authority to undo them.”

Since it’s silent on the issue wouldn’t the sane assumption be, then, that you COULD undue just as you did them them rather than you COULDN’T. That would seem to me to make more sense.


6 posted on 12/30/2016 7:50:46 AM PST by Castigar
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To: Castigar
Since it’s silent on the issue wouldn’t the sane assumption be, then, that you COULD undue just as you did them them rather than you COULDN’T. That would seem to me to make more sense.

That in a nutshell is WHY Harry Reid ended the filibuster. So they could pack the lower courts with liberal jurists who will always find in the Democrats' favor on such questions.


27 posted on 12/30/2016 9:28:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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