This Supreme Court Case Could Make Or Break The Biden Presidency (And The Planet)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Supreme Court will hear a case in February that could decide the future of the Biden presidency — and gut its ability to mitigate climate change in the face of congressional inaction.

The case, West Virginia v. EPA, centers on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Should the Court move to limit what the EPA can do, that, alone, would be incredibly significant.

But the Court, with its heavily conservative slant, could take the opportunity to go further, slashing the power of federal agencies across the board, a move that would hobble the Biden administration’s ability to enact its climate agenda as well as a long list of other priorities.

“There is a significant likelihood that how the Court handles this case will affect how much leeway agencies have to interpret authority statutes going forward,” Jonathan Adler, founding director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, told TPM.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-supreme-court-case-could-make-or-break-the-biden-presidency-and-the-planet/ar-AASKhon

SCOTUS seems to be anti-science

[Scrivener7]

1. In which case, with this court, we are in trouble.

[Casady1]

2. Corporate lawyers

Most of them come from the big law firms who never defend lowly people like you and me. They protect corporations. Most of them never met an African American until adulthood. Private schools lily white neighborhoods. RBG’s landmark cases would have lost in this court.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. You know which way that's going to go

[spanone]

4. I have no faith they will do the right thing....

ever.

[dem4decades]

5. It's over, the Republicans have been playing chess for years. We're moving

Around the board but the game had already been decided. Check, check, check, CHECK MATE.

[Celerity]

6. West Virginia, likely kicking America and the planet in the privy parts yet again

[LiberalFighter]

7. They need to change the pensions of judges.

Their pension should not be the salary while on the bench. They should probably review how senior judges are paid and their work.

[Funtatlaguy]

8. Mitch McConnell got his wish.

[ymetca]

9. The "deconstruction of the administrative state"

continues apace.

The 21st Century begins with an outpouring of toxic sludge, dressed up in legalese. I wonder how it will end?

[BlueIdaho]

10. If you are on social media

Start posting about this Kangaroo Supreme Court and the need to change its size and shape. It is no longer the apolitical third branch of government the founding fathers envisioned. Spread the word, it’s past time for a change.