Posted on 07/03/2017 3:10:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Dealing another legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot suspend an Obama-era rule to restrict methane emissions from new oil and gas wells.
The 2-to-1 decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the first major legal setback for Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, who is trying to roll back dozens of Obama-era environmental regulations. The ruling signals that President Trump’s plans to erase his predecessor’s environmental record are likely to face an uphill battle in the courts.
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“Congress cannot surrender it’s law-making power to ANYONE without passing an amendment stating such. “
I was arguing from the perspective of an EPA legal team. The reason I can is that Congress has passed laws and then delegated the implementation to the EPA, which is done by policies, rules and regulations. Since people can be arrested and prosecuted and go to jail for violating those regulations I would argue they have the force of law.
In essence, the EPA has become another branch of government, at least, I would argue, the equal of Congress. But none of them are elected. They are the deep state.
I haven’t read the order but am guessing that since there are posting requirements and commenting periods to create rules, modifications need to follow the same procedures. Easy, Trump only has to say that while the rules remain for now, prosecutorial discretion means that they will put their enforcement efforts elsewhere in the meantime.
A secondary benefit; it'll flush all those guys out in the open.
Ignore. The. Court.
Congress repubtards - do your job and impeach or reconfigure these courts.
Doesn’t that just fry you? The courts won’t ever stop the constant expansion of regulatory power be the illegal fourth branch. But they will immediately stop any effort to slow or reverse that expansion. Grrr...I’m so furious I could spit nails. Everywhere you look the GD government has metastasized into a monstrous tumor intent on eating away everything in the country.
Recall that Obama packed the DC Circuit, so we are not going to get anything our way from there.
The fight is on. Just watch...
Trump FAILED to ignore a court that was simply, CLEARLY out of bounds and so he WILL be their Bitch for as long as they care to push him around. That was a MAJOR failure on the part of the administration.
Not if a liberal judge says no....
Time for impeachment alright.... of MOST federal judges!
Follow the lead of Zero.... ignore the ruling.
If nothing else Trump Admin can just fail to enforce the law like Obama did with any law he didn’t like.
Throw George Soros in PRISON and FREEZE HIS ASSETS and I think a LOT of these anti-Trump court actions would come to a screeching halt.
The problem is business doesn’t act like illegal aliens.
The problem is business doesn’t act like illegal aliens.
Some Judges close to Retirement / Removal just got their Golden Parachute
Just ignore the ruling.
They cant all go to the SC. That will flood it.
Useless judges who have an agenda
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