Good toon by pookie18!
Parallel to the RvW decision may be the one on WV vs EPA; this one could gut the fed agencies of their power and return the decision making to the legislature and states.
FR thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4075028/posts
One more blockbuster Supreme Court decision could still be coming even after Friday’s abortion ruling
Fox News ^ | June 28, 2022 | By Liz Peek | Fox News
Posted on 6/29/2022, 10:10:03 PM by 11th_VA
Believe it or not, overturning Roe v. Wade may not be the Supreme Court’s most dramatic decision this year. Instead, its ruling on West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency could prove far more consequential. It could literally upend how our government works.
West Virginia vs. the EPA asks whether important policies that impact the lives of all Americans should be made by unelected D.C. bureaucrats or by Congress. This SCOTUS could well decide that ruling by executive agency fiat is no longer acceptable.
The case involves the Clean Power Plan, which was adopted under President Barack Obama to fight climate change; the program was estimated to cost as much as $33 billion per year and would have completely reordered our nation’s power grid. The state of West Virginia, joined by two coal companies and others, sued the EPA, arguing the plan was an abuse of power.
By deciding in favor of West Virginia, the court could begin to rein in the vast powers of the alphabet agencies in D.C. that run our lives and return it to legislators whom we elect to create…legislation.
Just as the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that abortion laws are more appropriately left up to the people’s elected representatives, it may decide in West Virginia vs. EPA that Congress, and not federal agencies, should write our laws.
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