Posted on 06/29/2015 10:22:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
Robespierre’s Roberts and Kennedy must want to be able to go to even the lower ranked parties in DC, those of the Business interests. As they have already managed to have permanent seats at all the State and “love in” events on the Calder.
Yes. I don’t really care what they do from now on. They are illegitimate no matter what.
The court has increasingly become about the all-powerful Kennedy.
Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi sued the Obama administration Monday to stop a new regulation asserting federal authority over minor waterways like streams and wetlands.
The rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of the most controversial regulations from the Obama administration, redefining how the EPA enforces the water pollution protections of the Clean Water Act.
In the lawsuit, filed in a Houston-based federal court, the states argue that the rule “is an unconstitutional and impermissible expansion of federal power over the states and their citizens and property owners.”
The states’ attorneys general — all Republican — said the “waters of the United States” rule violates the clear language of the Clean Water Act that drew a line between federal authority and that of states or private landowners over waterways.
“Whereas Congress defined the limits of its commerce power through the Clean Water Act to protect the quality of American waters, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers, through the Final Rule, are attempting to expand their authority to regulate water and land use by the states and their citizens,” they wrote.
The case appears to be the first lawsuit against the rule, though it’s unlikely to be the last. Apart from many states, farmers, developers, business groups and others oppose rule, which they said could give the EPA power over almost any piece of land.
The administration wrote the rule and made it final last month in an attempt to clarify its jurisdiction after two Supreme Court cases made it murky. While about 3 percent more area is now covered by the Clean Water Act than before, the protections are still smaller than they were during President Bill Clinton’s administration.
The Clean Water Act gives federal officials jurisdiction over “navigable” water, but they also must regulate a certain distance upstream to protect the main waterways.
If a waterway is under federal jurisdiction, landowners might need permits for anything that harms or pollutes it.
“We’re finalizing a clean water rule to protect the streams and the wetlands that one in three Americans rely on for drinking water,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said when rolling out the rule. “And we’re doing that without creating any new permitting requirements and maintaining all previous exemptions and exclusions.”
Brian Deese, a top adviser to President Obama, said “the only people with reason to oppose the rule are polluters who want to threaten our clean water.”
The agency made a point when it unveiled the rule to explain what is not covered, including standard agricultural practices and isolated ponds.
The House has voted to overturn the rule, and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has passed a bill to overturn it while giving the EPA specific instructions to re-write it.
We’ll probably never hear pro-unconstitutionally big federal government activist justices admit that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and activist justices along with it.
Kennedy is back to being a “conservative” today?
The liberals on that court are pure and simply locked step in every way. They’re like robots.
Bump for later.
and then just rewrite the pollution rules?
-PJ
EVERY executive regulation should face an up/down vote from congress.
SCOTUS is made up of globalists.
On a 24-hour stuck clock, they can only be right once a day.
I just retired from 30 years of running a public water supply. You can remove 99% of something from that water, but the last 1% is the cost killer! A gallon of water might cost as much as a gallon of gas. And that final 1/10 of a percent? A bit exaggerated, but you get the point.
So, we have 4 morons who will always vote against the Constitution, 3 that always support the Constitution, and 2 who have to wait for either instructions or check the wind outside before voting.
What the hell is a “landmark rule?”
With this ruling, we are going to see a demonstration of the concept that the court only gives opinies, it doesn’t make law ot policy. Funny how that only happens when it is a topic that lefists don;t agree with. Every reader knows just as well as I do that the leviathan will ignore the court, becasue it’s ruling does not follow the script of feeding the beast more power. Sure, there will be a kabuki threater for the 6 oclock news, eventually, though the cogs that run the machinery willonce again start turning and our freedoms will be at risk.
I hope that when we get a Congress with some guts, the EPA can be defunded entirely!
If we ever get another Conservative president, I hope he says that man-made Climate Change is a Scam.
I am very much ready to hear some truth out of our politicians.
Vote out those with forked tongues...which means almost all of them
I’m shocked. They actually based an opinion on the rule of law? It still doesn’t change my very low opinion of the Supreme Court, its for moronic robotic radical leftists plus its super-moron Kenney and its chief moron Roberts.
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