SCOTUS Sides With Landowners In Blow to Obama Admin's Environmental Agenda

Townhall.com ^ | June 1, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

[dearolddad]

Best argument going for “looser pays” And I don’t mean the tax payers, I mean the moron who gave/signed the order.

[semimojo]

The White House’s Clean Water Act...

Laws are passed by Congress, not the White House. In fact, this law was wasn't even signed by a President when passed in 1972. Nixon's veto was overridden.

Hawkes Co., Inc. was one of the businesses affected by the White House’s environmental guidelines....

No again. The Hawkes dispute goes back to 2012. The rule cited here wasn't issued until last year.

[Elsie]

I don’t know how to post it as a working graphic

FR's Your Reply: in box won't process Flash or JavaScripted code.

I've looked for a pure HTML only clock; but have not found one.

But Jim could put a counter on FR's pages.

[Rinnwald]

I know, its hard to believe, but she IS mariried to a man named “Kenneth” and has three kids (supposedly).

Kenneth knows the frequency, apparently.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I would support a law like that:

Should the government sue a party in civil court (1) under agency (not legislative) law and lose the case or be reversed upon appeal by (2) unanimous or unanimous-2 judgement, the government should be required to pay double the defendants’ legal fees.

[G Larry]

All EPA Regulations written in the last 10 years need to be declared null & void.

All rulings under those regulations overturned.

[SatinDoll]

Older women sometimes have joint pain in their shoulders, so having really short hair is convenient for them and does not indicate any sort of weird sexual perversion.

[ConservativeMind]

Who is he?

[Ben Ficklin]

"Unanimous, yes, but I am puzzled as to why the concurring decisions were written."

Its because of the history of this issue.

When Roberts became chief justice(2006) he wanted to address and limit the Corp and EPA's authority to use the CWA to regulate private property. This had been a problem since CWA had been enacted.

The case that was taken was called Rapanos vs United States.

The decision was split 4-1-4 with 4 conservatives, 4 liberals, and Kennedy being the 1.

In his opinion Kennedy used the phrase "significant nexus". Such as: if a body of water had a significant nexus to a regulated river, then it too could be regulated. But significant nexus is not well defined.

So subsequent to the ruling, lower courts would be ruling on subsequent cases and many conflicted decisions were handed down and some judges were publicly criticizing SCOTUS for their ill defined decision. Environmental lawyers and consultants were also complaining.

But SCOTUS would not take another case to clear it up. So, eventually McCarthy was appointed and she decided to rewrite the reg(2014) and it went into effect in 2015.

Maybe the rewrite would clear it up, and if not, it would put the issue back into the lap of SCOTUS forcing SCOTUS to clear it up.

The unanimous decision means yes, SCOTUS needs to fix the problem. The concurring opinions means that they disagree on how it will be fixed.

[i_robot73]

>The govey should be made to pay all attorney’s fees, and sanctioned for bringing the case.

Great! The taxpayers pay 2-3x. How ‘bout just dismantle the whole illegal/unconstitutional mess?

>”...and the company can challenge it like any regulation...”

Ah, so since it WASN’T passed by Congress, then it isn’t Law, right? Just a ‘regulation’, no? Not like We the People authorized the pass-off....But, I’m no ‘legal eagle’ /s

[Buckeye McFrog]

So corrupt it did not even get by the Wise Latina and Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg, eh?

[dfwgator]

“Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!”

[Rinnwald]

Older women sometimes have joint pain in their shoulders, so having really short hair is convenient for them and does not indicate any sort of weird sexual perversion.

And sometimes: lesbians.

[dila813]

This is going to be a major test for Trump, putting all these law breakers behind bars.

[Crucial]

Putting up the clock too early might give Freepers a false sense of security.

[Kaslin]

A female homo who is married to a male and they have 3 children together Daniel, Maggie and Julie.

Now get real.

[minnesota_bound]

#33 also can you explain obamas way of sitting with his legs crossed and his fey hand gestures? : )

[minnesota_bound]

See Amber Heard. No kids but she is a switch hitter as is actress Meredith Baxter from “Family Ties”. She has been married to 3 guys and 1 women and has 5 kids...... : )

[Kaslin]

I am an older woman who has currently very short hair. The beautician I went to didn't listen when I told her how I wanted my hairstyle. I had taken a picture from a hairstyle magazine with my smart phone a few years ago and saved in my phone. So when she was getting ready to cut it, I asked her if she wanted to see the picture again? Her reply was "I know how to cut hair. She started by using a electric clipper on the back of my hair halfway up my head, instead of using a Scissor. Needless to say I did not tip her.

I have always had short hair because my hair is very fine and my mother thought keeping my hair short would eventually thicken it, but it never did.

Our children had all thick hair I

[Kaslin]

Yes it will be.