The ERA "ratification was a useless bit of pandering, but these two last-minute executive orders are going to cause real harm because they can’t be easily reversed

WASHINGTON — President Biden and his aides handlers have spent their final days in office announcing 32 executive actions — on topics from immigration to offshore drilling — aimed at tying up President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

The lame-duck 82-year-old’s flurry of late moves to try to make himself a hero to Democrats and obstruct his successor’s agenda include:

Deportation protection

Granting Temporary Protected Status to almost 1 million people, meaning they are protected from deportation and entitled to work permits. The action, decreed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Jan. 10, shields 234,000 Salvadorans, 1,900 Sudanese, 104,000 Ukrainians and 600,000 Venezuelans for a period of 18 months.

Trump’s appointees at the Department of Homeland Security can move to revoke the TPS designations, but it will likely require a lengthy legal fight.

Barring off-shore drilling

Banning drilling for oil and natural gas off most of America’s coastline, done via presidential memorandum on Jan. 6. The massive new off-limits ocean zone is larger than the states of Alaska and Texas combined.

Trump pledged to “unban it immediately,” but the president-elect faces a legal hurdle due to the fact that the law Biden used, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, has no clear mechanism for future presidential reversals, meaning Congress may need to repeal Biden’s memo themselves.

Senate Democrats can block non-budget reconciliation legislation with the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to overcome.