Everything You Need To Know Before Obama’s Global Warming Plan Goes To Court

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments Tuesday in West Virginia v. EPA, the legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature global warming initiative, the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

The litigation is massive in scale — nearly every state in the union is involved in some capacity. West Virginia is leading a coalition of 27 states who are challenging the rule, while 18 states have come to the Plan’s defense. Each side is joined by activist and industry groups, electric companies, academics, lawmakers, tech companies, and retired dignitaries who together have filed over 70 amicus, or friend-of-the-court briefs.

The implications at stake are so significant that the U.S. Supreme Court preemptively issued a stay of the CPP in February, one of the last orders Justice Antonin Scalia participated in before his death. Whatever the result, the decision could be blocked pending a petition for Supreme Court review. What’s more, the D.C. Circuit has elected to hear the case en banc, that is, as a whole, as opposed to a hearing by a three-judge panel which is typical of appeals. The court’s decision underscores the magnitude of the case.

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

Thank you for referencing that article rktman. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

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If parents were making sure that their children were being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, then grade school children would probably be able to point out the following concerning the constitutionally undefined EPA.

The states have never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental issues.

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in general that powers not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds, the power to regulate environmental issues in this example, are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Also consider that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in faceless, non-elected bureaucrats such as those running the EPA, IRS, FAA, EEOC, DOL and CRC as examples.

So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it want it or not. But by unconstitutionally front-ending itself with non-elected bureaucrats who are effectively running the country, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.

In other words, corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting constitutionally unauthorized federal officials get away with stealing and exercising legislative powers, a lot of these powers actually 10A-protected state powers which the feds have stolen from the states, so that federal bureaucrats can do Congress’s unconstitutional and unpopular legislative work for it.

By allowing this to happen, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots, patriots who don’t understand the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them imo.

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in state affairs.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

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