Posted on 07/17/2023 7:07:34 PM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court may soon weigh in on Mountain Valley Pipeline developers’ request to vacate a federal court’s order to halt construction on the project, which developers argue conflicts with a law Congress passed guaranteeing its completion.
Developers of the natural gas pipeline filed an emergency application Friday with Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles petitions from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the Supreme Court to allow the project to continue. The Fourth Circuit sided with environmental groups challenging the pipeline and temporarily halted the project last week, an order the developers argue “flew in the face” of Congress’ command.
“The court of appeals lacked jurisdiction to grant the relief it ordered (or any other),” lawyers for the developers wrote in their application. “Even assuming that court had jurisdiction, Congress has ratified the underlying agency actions and superseded any provision of law that could have conceivably served as a basis for relief.”
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Just do as the commies do and totally ignore the court as if it didn’t exist and just keep on trucking. They’re ball-less and have no enforcement arm.
“They’re ball-less and have no enforcement arm.”
The FBI, the US Marshals, the IRS, woke banks, pantiesinawadfa. YEah, they have an enforcement arm.
“..YEah, they have an enforcement arm....”
I shoulda put a “/s” on it. I was being sarcastic.
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We’ll see if anything comes of this.
This is just the beginning. There is an army of rat Judges willing to destroy our ability to create energy because of the climate BS. This is a problem.
On what side will "Smirkin' John" Roberts land?
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