[where's_the_Outrage?]

Great step by SCOTUS to stop overreaching government.

I live off Lake St Clair in Michigan, around 100 years ago people used the surrounding wetlands to dig canals using the excavated mud to form building areas for houses. Glad the EPA wasn't around to stop it. We have beautiful blue water, great fishing, and fun boating (when Witless doesn't make it illegal).

[Qwapisking]

government agency exists to impede the freedoms of taxpayers and make the taxpayers pay for that imposition. it’s a sad, sick cycle that only the taxpayers can stop by voting out politicians who grow government. but here we are. and again...”elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” enjoy!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Great step by SCOTUS to stop overreaching government.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well and truly said. A conservative Federal and State judiciary is the last line of peaceful defense against a government of tyranny in our country. That’s why we’re doomed if the Biden regime is not obliterated in the next election.

[Obadiah]

"Expert" Jim Murphy of the National Wildlife Federation

Any time I see the corrupt MSM use the term "expert" I immediately know they are using some left-wing shill as a propaganda tool for the sole purpose of reinforcing the let's narrative. You know, "I am the science.". "Trust the science."

[SaveFerris]

[and started to fill in the marshy site with gravel.]

Will there be a gravely road?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Justice delayed is justice denied. Our legal system is a complete cluster cluck. Look anywhere. Look at the outrage that is Fani Willis.

[marktwain]

The EPA has been extra-constitutional by nature, from the beginning. If it stuck to making sure pollution did not cross state lines, it might be acceptable.

However, the EPA claims the power to regulate everything everywhere. We did not form the Republic to be terrorized by unelected bureaucrats.

[hinckley buzzard]

Significantly, decision was 9-0.

[70times7]

I vaguely remember this case (it’s 15 years old). The issue was that an outrageously overzealous EPA was determining large swaths of land were wetland for reasons nearly as compelling as: a frog once hopped across it.

EPA bureaucrats are not normal people; they are green extremists who joined government to force a warped agenda.

This article is deliberately slanted. One need only note that the property in question is consistently described as “wetland”. That was the key question of the case; what qualifies as wetland? The SCOTUS properly found that the EPA doesn’t have the authority to arbitrarily declare any area they want as a wetland. The EPA should have to pay all of their court costs and attorney fees.

[Mashood]

Lawfare takes a pause.

[joma89]

The epa is yet another government terrorist organization.

[Maris Crane]

I shall celebrate this WIN...with gusto!

9 to 0!

HOORAY.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The Sacketts never were ones to let themselves be pushed around by governments.

[Fido969]

The feds expanded “wetlands” to include vernal pools, basically where water puddled during wet seasons, usually spring. I think that backing off that definition is what the MSM is claiming that “half of the wetlands have been removed from protection”.

[euram]

I’ve heard complaints that the EPA quite often declares small ponds and even mud holes as “wetlands”.

[tlozo]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “eliminate the unconstitutional Waters of the U.S. rule” and constrain federal regulation of private land use. According to then‐​candidate Trump, the Obama administration’s 2015 regulation defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act (CWA)—the so‐​called WOTUS rule—was “so extreme that it gives federal agencies control over creeks, small streams, and even puddles or mostly dry areas on private property.” While guaranteeing “crystal clear” water under his administration, Trump also pledged to lessen the federal regulatory burden on landowners.

In 2001, in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC), the Supreme Court rejected the agencies’ assertion of CWA jurisdiction over a pond that had formed in an abandoned gravel pit.

The Supreme Court had sent the EPA and Army Corps a powerful message about the scope of their regulatory ambitions, but the agencies refused to listen. After briefly considering revising their regulations in light of the SWANCC opinion, the two agencies continued to assert broad regulatory authority throughout much of the country. The Army Corps and EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to consider revising their jurisdictional regulations in 2003, but abandoned the effort in response to criticism from environmentalist and conservationist groups that feared a regulatory rollback.

https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2019/redefining-waters-united-states#

[waterhill]

So would not the dried up lake bed in Nevada be a wetland? (Burning man festival)

[PIF]

Ruling:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf

[JayGalt]

This is a wonderful precedent.
Americans need to shut down those power hungry, empire building federal bureaucrats. They have a narrow lane & should keep to it.

[FLT-bird]

In other words, the EPA does not get to step in and claim you cannot touch any puddle or ditch on your property like they were trying to do.....all without paying you one red cent for massively devaluing your property by forbidding any development or use of it.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, after struggling for five years with bureaucrats, who if employed at their competence level would have been pushing mops and who, among other brilliant ideas, wanted the fire lanes to be declared "wetlands" (rain water pools in them), I finally had no choice but to sell one of the most gorgeous 150 acres of pristine, old growth forest, wildlife inhabited sanctuaries on earth to developers.

It's now stumps and weeds.

What happened to the beautiful wild animals I do not know.

I warned the bureaucrats in advance. They didn't care.

My plan had been to keep it all preserved in its wild, beautiful condition. They didn't care about that either.