Roberts joins with liberals to criticize 'shadow docket' as court reinstates Trump-era EPA rule

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-john-roberts-epa-water/index.html

(CNN)A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court's emergency docket in the spotlight.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's liberal justices in dissent, arguing that the court's majority had "gone astray" by granting an unwarranted request on its emergency docket.

"That renders the Court's emergency docket not for emergencies at all," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the four dissenters. She said that the Republican-led states and others that had petitioned the court for emergency relief had not shown they would suffer the necessary irreparable harm to make their case.

"This Court may stay a decision under review in a court of appeals only in extraordinary circumstances and upon the weightiest considerations," Kagan wrote. She said the challengers' request for a stay rested on "simple assertions -- on conjectures, unsupported by any present-day evidence."

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[madaboutharry]

1. The SC is corrupt and out of control.

The court is being run by far right-wing ideologues who have no respect for democracy or the American people. They are using the SC to mold America into the dream of The Federalist Society.

[Hugin]

2. Not much of a court they have going there.

No public testimony no hearings

Just a rubber stamp.

At least the kangaroos make a show of it.

[Walleye]

3. So, Roberts? Just who is the chief justice exactly?

[Polybius]

8. What can he do?

He can't make the others vote less crazy.

[Walleye]

9. Yep all he can really do is write a dissent, I guess

[gratuitous]

4. That's a twist on Willy Wonka's rhetorical question

Did you hear about the Chief Justice who suddenly got everything he always wanted?

[MagickMuffin]

5. CJ Roberts provides cover on his court. Ginni Thomas IS the cj!

She controls the Supreme Court.

[dalton99a]

6. It is now a permanent regulatory arm of the Republican Party

[gibraltar72]

7. If as he said, he wanted the court to "be respected and thought fair"

He is a miserable failure. Historians will say it was a travesty.