• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Could California simply sink ships and rigs and say it was terrorists or drug cartel?

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      2 days ago

      That’s not legal. What’s much more likely is denying permits for onshore infrastructure which would support offshore oil drilling.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s not legal.

        In this new paradigm, who’s to say? Have someone like Newsom issue an order to, say, the National Guard, and then see it wind its way through the courts to decide whether it really was, way after the fact.