Chief justice rejects plea to block air pollution rule
Source: The Hill
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.
Robertss order came despite his courts 5-4 decision last year ruling that the Environmental Protection Agencys (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 Courts recent unprecedented decision to halt the EPAs carbon dioxide rule for power plants in asking the court to live up to its ruling last year and block the regulations enforcement.
Unless this court stays or enjoins further operation of the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, this courts 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 EPAs statutory authority.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/271614-chief-justice-rejects-plea-to-block-air-pollution-rule
A win for the Obama Administration!!!!
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)With him out of the way maybe Roberts feels somehow less constrained?
Interesting and encouraging development!
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)So he might be a bit pissed about it so. he might still be Conservative but he's no Tea Party.. So he gave them the shit end of the stick
houston16revival
(953 posts)Could be anything ... pro-life and poisoning incompatible ... just about
knew the case would be 4-4 and how inefficient to spend all that time
and bother to hear the arguments and rule on it ... the hard work scientists
and the Administration did is impressive ... reading public opinion on the
Court ...
Presidents can appoint Justices, and screen them and filter them ... but the
younger a Justice, the more personal change can happen in the years ahead.
Enlightenment can come late, opinions can grow, knowledge increases
Things that are in the long run best interests of the country and are just about
proven and economically efficient should pass muster.
Wonder what criteria Scalia used?
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)MgtPA
(1,022 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Sammy Davis Jr's recurring role on Laugh In