Back on the tweeter

Yesterday:




Last night, after a lot of blowback about his hateful tweet:...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.




This morning after stewing about having made a semi-capitulation to decency last night:

The federal government owns about 46 million acres in the state, or 46 percent of California's total acreage, according to the Congressional Research Service, and Shubb's decision could allow it to sell more federal land there.

  Reuters

Get smart!

And while we're on the subject...

A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a California law that restricted the U.S. government’s ability to sell or transfer federal land in the state to private entities, handing a victory to the Trump administration.

In a decision on Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Shubb in Sacramento, said the law discriminated against land purchasers who deal with the United States.

  Reuters

Are you fucking kidding me? Will land purchasers be discriminated against if they want to buy your land and you don't want to sell?

He said the law violated the so-called doctrine of intergovernmental immunity and the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which governs conflicts between state and federal laws, and issued a permanent injunction against its enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Justice in April sued California over the law, known as Senate Bill 50, which gave the California State Lands Commission a right of first refusal over many land transfers.

Supporters hoped the law would stop the Trump administration from selling land that could later be used for oil drilling, mining or property development.

Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed the law in October 2017. It took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.

Yet another reason packing the courts is so important. I hope California is going to appeal. Of course, if it gets to the Supreme Court, we know what will happen.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the decision a “firm rejection” of California’s “stunning assertion of constitutional power” to dictate how and when the federal government can sell its own land.

He also said federal judges in recent months have voided two other California laws “designed to frustrate federal law,” and said that the trend was “concerning.”

And hopefully, now that Sessions has been ignominiously discarded, we won't have to hear from him again.

UPDATE: