Chief justice rejects plea to block air pollution rule

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Chief justice rejects plea to block air pollution rule
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By Timothy Cama - 03/03/16 10:35 AM EST

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected a plea Thursday to block a contentious air pollution rule for power plants in a big victory for the Obama administration.

Roberts’s order came despite his court’s 5-4 decision last year ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation, known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, is illegal.

Michigan led a group of 20 states last month — empowered by the Supreme Court’s recent unprecedented decision to halt the EPA’s carbon dioxide rule for power plants — in asking the court to live up to its ruling last year and block the regulation’s enforcement.

“Unless this court stays or enjoins further operation of the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, this court’s recent decision in Michigan v. EPA will be thwarted,” the states wrote in a Feb. 23 filing with the court.

“A stay or injunction is appropriate because this court has already held that the finding on which the rule rests in unlawful and beyond EPA’s statutory authority.”.................

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/271614-chief-justice-rejects-plea-to-block-air-pollution-rule

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[randys1]

1. Why, could it be to take heat off the pricks who wont allow Obama his constitutional duty

of APPOINTING not nominating a justice?

I wonder if our attorneys here have another answer.

[jaysunb]

4. Roberts will become more moderate as the Court tilts.

The handwriting is already on the wall as to replacement of Scalia. Roberts legacy will be his only concern going forward. He will throw Thomas and Alito's bullshit under the bus and Kennedy will also be a go along with the majority. That's just another reason this election looms so large.

[silvershadow]

2. Another Obama win, against the insurrectionist, obstructionist, intransigent and nullifying

congress and forces at work...

[yallerdawg]

3. Ooops!

Republican dreams of unfettered capitalism takes one on the chin!

Scalia's absence noted already?