William Perry Pendley's temporary appointment at the Burea of Land Management was recently extended for the fifth time since taking over the agency last summer.William Perry Pendley's temporary appointment at the Burea of Land Management was recently extended for the fifth time since taking over the agency last summer.
The suit, filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility or PEER and the Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project, takes aim at the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. Neither agency has had permanent, Senate-confirmed directors during the entire Trump presidency.
Jenkins says the administration is circumventing federal law by continually extending the temporary appointments of David Vela at NPS and William Perry Pendley at the BLM. If either were actually named as 'acting' directors, Jenkins says, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act would bar them from serving more than 210 days. Both men have been at the helm of their respective agencies longer.
"The overall pattern is to weaken the environmental bureaus and allow state interests and private extractive industry interests to call the shots," Jenkins says.
Hmmm. Sounds like Obama and his FBI.
More entrenched bureaucrats don't like change. TOUGH!
This is just more people who have never accepted, and never will accept, the outcome of the 2016 election.
Duh.
What Constitution? They've not followed it since he was put there by Putin.
The federal government shouldn't own most of the land it currently does. All national parks should be deeded back to the states. That would solve the problem they seem to be decrying.
Trump administration breaking the law?
No shit
Yep. And bitch McConnell is letting him. votetheshitout
Conservatives recognize the Trump administration's unprecedented use of non-confirmed directors at the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management violates law. 'They're just freewheeling around the Constitution.'
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