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Without private property, there is no freedom.
The EPA needs to have its powers severely curtailed.
God bless Associate Justice Alito!
Too bad the Supreme Court can´t muster the courage to vet Obama.
We had a lawyer friend who took on the state version of the EPA in Connecticut about 15 years ago, in a case where they refused permission for someone to build an access road into their house because there was a puddle in the ground. The lawyer won, and was awarded a million and a half to split with the owner.
We know someone down the hill from us in Vermont who planned to move their ancient house back a hundred more feet from the road, so the headlights would glare into their windows and some car coming down the hill wouldn’t crash into the house. But the town had put a culvert under a class 4 dirt road that ran just above their house, and the water had collected where they wanted to go. Some “wetlands” plant had started to grow in the puddle. Permission refused. This was a small “wetland” that had been caused by the recently installed culvert, and which they would have moved just a little further down the slope.
These regulators are NUTS.
The epa-Dragon needs to feed.
The epa-Dragon needs to feed.
The government argues (EPA lawyer?) that the EPA normally gives pre-notice not to build on a wetland. Presumably they can’t prove it in this case.
Alito says, “So What.”
Earlier, Alito had asked what is the normal America supposed to think when they’re developing their home and some government agency comes in to tell them they’re in violation, that they’re gonna be fined up to 75 grand, that their back yard is a wetland, that they have to undo all the work they’ve already done, and that they can’t appeal the EPA’s order UNLESS the EPA FIRST chooses to sue them.
The lawyer’s response was that citizens normally get pre-notified about this stuff.
Alito says “So What!”
Does he mean any more than, who cares you didn’t give advance notice?
It is about dang time the Supremes get fired up about the constitution and rule of law in the US. If they keep on sleeping and playing footsies with the elite, they will have no constitutional Republic to defend. Then they can retire and stop betraying and pretending.
did they know it was wetlands when they bought it? maybe they should have fully inspect the land they bought and checked it out better before buying. It looks like they bought a money pit.
They even called "wetland" right where a house had stood for over 100 years alongside a multi acre peach farm. They're nuts!!
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