Posted on 01/10/2012 7:50:42 PM PST by WilliamIII
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue is whether the EPA’s use of “administrative compliance orders,” which are essentially government commands issued to property owners, should be subject to judicial review under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. In other words, when the EPA tells a homeowner to stop building because of a possible violation of the Clean Water Act, does that homeowner have the right to promptly challenge the EPA in court? As Robert Barnes observes in The Washington Post, “Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared troubled by the EPA’s position that Mike and Chantell Sackett do not have the right to go court to challenge the agency’s wetlands decision.” Barnes continues:
The government has said the EPA’s power to issue compliance orders, with its threats of huge fines, is a way to quickly move to stop environmental damage. Allowing polluters to go to court would tie up the agency in litigation.
But several justices seemed to agree with the Sacketts’s lawyer, Damien M. Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation, that those subject to the EPA orders should not have to wait for the agency to decide whether to go to court.
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Good for the comeuppance.
Can't think of anyone that deserves it more.
My message for the libs is that you REALLY, REALLY don't want to live in a world with no rules or arbitrary rules. Rules (some rules) are good.
No rules means I win. I'm faster, smarter, and better armed. And in a world with no rules... that's all that counts.
/johnny
Due process? What century is the author living in?
Yeah; and how's this consistent with Executive Orders and their implementation?
Yeah, it’s quaint, isn’t it?
Anybody know how the”wise Latina” ruled?
There should be a taxpayer ombudsman that literally attacks government when it goes outside it’s Constitutional bounds.
Think government gadfly.
Repub nominee needs to campaign on cutting EPA budget in half and rewriting their charter.
We can have clean air and water without the gestapo tactics used to discourage and shutter industry and growth.
Couple years ago the NOAA discovered that a single-woman biz in Florida was selling a coral product (in a list of hundreds of products) without a license:
2 DOZEN agents in kooky nijya outfits did a dynamic entry on her house with machine-guns.
They kicked over stuff, zip-tied her, ran around screaming in her ear.
Alice in Wonderland.
Did u know the Dept of Education now ALSO has a *SWAT team?* I’m serious.
They heard oral arguments. They will deliberate next. They won’t rule for a couple of months
No ruling for months yet.
How’s this for justice? Make the EPA build their house as planned, and pay for it out of the EXECUTIVE’S paychecks.
My bad, I thought the court ruled already.
Ok, then anyone wanna guess how the wise Latina will rule?
“when it goes outside it’s Constitutional bounds”...
Good luck with that. The truth is the majority of government operates outside its constitutional bounds these days.
Time for the EPA to eat their peas.
Congress could help in these cases by enacting Loser Pays.
Yes, you’re correct.
These ‘police forces’ are part of the corruption in Constitutional government that the CSIS and Rand Corporation created when they developed the idea of a ‘homeland security’ branch of the federal government.
They created ‘homeland security’ as a means of generating money for themselves, as they are paid to develop ideas like deputizing all departments of the executive branch, and then are paid to implement them.
In no way can a country be free, if every government office has its own police force and the directive to implement whatever regulation they want and enforce compliance themselves.
NOAA is particularly offensive, as a wind and weather monitoring group, they now implement international law through regulatory compliance, and they have armed deputies who can shoot and kill you if you disturb the birds in the ‘marine sanctuary’.
Right now they are trying to run the United States Coast Guard off their base near the pier in Monterey and force them to move away from the water so that NOAA can take over the prime real estate location. They have support from Congressman Sam Farr, who I have no doubt will make this happen.
It’s a nightmare.
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