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> Supreme Court simply ruled that EPA exceeded its authority given by lawmakers. The supreme court could have abolished the EPA and this statement would still
by enragedcacti 3y ago
> Supreme Court simply ruled that EPA exceeded its authority given by lawmakers.
The supreme court could have abolished the EPA and this statement would still be true. They simply ruled it, no politics happening here!
It is completely meaningless to discuss the supreme court without discussing the actual circumstances of the cases and the precedents set by their rulings.
Disagree? Just ask Kavanaugh w.r.t. their clean water act ruling, which of course just simply ruled that the EPA exceeded its authority:
> The majority had “rewritten the Clean Water Act” and ignored its text as well as “45 years of consistent agency practice,” Kavanaugh wrote.
> The statutory text, Kavanaugh wrote, “does not require a continuous surface connection between those wetlands and covered waters.”
> By narrowing the (Clean Water) Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands,” Kavanaugh wrote, “the court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/supreme-court-wetlands-authority-epa/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/supreme-court-wetlan...
- paddw 3y agoRuling was 8-1, so if politics are happening, they seem mostly bipartisan in this specific EPA case.
- enragedcacti 3y agoIt was actually 9-0 in this particular case. All justices agreed that the Sacketts' wetland was not subject to the CWA. What is under contention (and was a 5-4 decision) is under what grounds and what test should be applied going forward: https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-curtails-clean-water-act/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-curtails-cl...