SCOTUS flabbergasted Democrats on Thursday when they cracked down hard on climate change madness. Before the nervous Justices can go scurrying off into hiding until October they have to get their work finished. That means a back-to-back release of one controversial decision after another. The latest batch includes one curbing the EPA’s powers to inflict green dream nightmares on the American public.
SCOTUS says EPA overstepped
Not only does the decision SCOTUS issued Thursday, June 30, rein in the power of our Environmental Protection Agency to “broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants,” it “cut back agency authority in general.”
The first part of that is a major blow to Joe Biden as he’s surrounded by howling environmentalists but the second part is bad for the whole New World Order. Brussels will have a much harder time getting methane tanks strapped to every cow.
The crucial issue revolves around the “major questions” doctrine. That’s the one that says any serious issues need to be handled directly by Congress. Lawmakers have been shirking their assigned duties and letting the EPA do their work for them. Without much oversight at that.
What SCOTUS just did, analysts note, “will impact the federal government’s authority to regulate in other areas of climate policy, as well as regulation of the internet and worker safety.”
This particular SCOTUS order will “send shock waves across the federal government, threatening agency action that comes without clear congressional authorization,” CNN gasps. The count came in 6-3 along philosophical lines. Chief Justice John Roberts drew the short straw this time and wrote up the majority opinion.
Their precedent, he types, “counsels skepticism toward EPA’s claim” that the law “empowers it to devise carbon emissions caps based on a generation shifting approach.” That makes it “a major questions case,” Roberts notes, while adding that “there is little reason to think Congress assigned such decisions to the Agency.”
Liberals call it ‘cataclysmic’
Throwing Roe v Wade out the window was bad enough but this, CNN’s legal analyst declares, “could be cataclysmic for modern administrative law.” The network keeps Steve Vladeck chained up in their basement and drags him out in front of cameras to untangle legal decisions.
“For a century,” he explains, “the federal government has functioned on the assumption that Congress can broadly delegate regulatory power to executive branch agencies.” Today’s ruling by SCOTUS “opens the door to endless challenges to those delegations.”
The fallout from what SCOTUS just did could derail all the progressive policies “from climate change to food safety standards.” It’s all because Congress “wasn’t specific enough in giving the agency the power to regulate such ‘major‘ issues.” Referring to the case at hand, capping CO2 may be “sensible,” Roberts informs, but “it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.”
They had carte blanche. “A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch went a step further right than the SCOTUS majority and “emphasized the court’s move to limit agency power, which he considers unaccountable to the public.” It’s supposed to be We the People. “While we all agree that administrative agencies have important roles to play in a modern nation, surely none of us wishes to abandon our Republic’s promise that the people and their representatives should have a meaningful say in the laws that govern them.”
Justice Elena Kagan stopped just short of telling everyone to buy a set of flippers to get ready for Waterworld. Writing for the minority liberals, she “sounded the alarm about global warming and said that the court’s decision ‘strips‘ the EPA of the ‘power Congress gave it to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.” Speaking for all Democrats she concluded, “I cannot think of many things more frightening.“
