[LS]

Unbelievable that this even COMES before the USSC.

[bert]

What real double blind studies exist indicating sonar harms marine mammals.

Studies by GreenPeace or other such are not admissible.

[doodad]

Those added measures would have required the Navy to stop its sonar exercises when the threat to mammals was deemed imminent.

Which is impossible to judge, so this is foolishness.

[NavVet]

The Navy should train while it last, the Supreme Court is about to get a lot more radical in the near future.

[Thrownatbirth]

This calls for a PING ping.

[dead]

even though the technology threatens marine life

Threatens? In what way?

It makes noises they may not like, or they may love the noise. Who knows? Whales can't talk to us, despite goofy hippy wishes.

[SmithL]

Ping ) ) ) ) )

[Eye of Unk]

The Navy of the future is here today.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

What?.....A sense of sanity from the supreme court?

[OCCASparky]

Good thing they got it in when they did. Four years from now, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Obummer saw to it the Navy got welded to the pier.

[rwfromkansas]

We can look forward to these narrow conservative rulings instead of a clear-cut conservative rulings thanks to Obama.

There is NO WAY Ginsburg or Stevens will not either die or retire in the next 4 years. Just no way.

We were so close to finally getting a conservative court, and that is what I will regret most about Obama winning, at least so far....

Hopefully nobody will retire or die on the conservative side, even Kennedy. If Kennedy leaves, he will be replaced by a die-hard liberal, and the court will switch from narrow conservative/moderate to narrow liberal, but they will win every time, not just sometimes like present....

[AndyJackson]

US SC decision in Winter v. National Resources Defense Council

For the record, the USSC merely overturned the grant of a preliminary injunction against the Navy. Second the dissent was principally Ginsberg and Souter. Breyer's dissent is very different and he does not uphold the original injunction at all.

[soycd]

>Roberts wrote that “the Navy’s need to conduct realistic training with active sonar to respond to the threat posed by enemy submarines plainly outweighs” the environmental concerns raised by advocacy groups.

And he is correct. He should also note that these so-called “advocacy groups” advocate the destruction of America.

They can leave anytime...if another country will have them.

[SmithL]

Here's the heart of the decision:

The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward by the environmental groups. It said, rather, that federal courts abused their discretion by ordering the Navy to limit sonar use in some cases and to turn it off altogether in others.

AP via SFGate

[montag813]

even though the technology threatens marine life

Chinese and Russian technology threaten human life. Gee, thanks for actually letting us defend it

/s

[randog]

...until the Navy took additional measures to mitigate the threat to whales, dolphines and other...

...cute, cuddly animals.

[Seaplaner]

Roberts wrote that “the Navy’s need to conduct realistic training with active sonar to respond to the threat posed by enemy submarines plainly outweighs” the environmental concerns raised by advocacy groups.

Precisely.

What is unsaid is that everyone involved (save for community organizees) must know (or reasonably suspect) that this has NOTHING to do with whales and EVERYTHING to do with attempting to weaken the defense and military of the U. S.

[dbz77]

Of course, if the court had gone the other way, or if a future Congress passes a law to protect the whales, guess where the Navy will do its sonar thing?