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Posted on 02/25/2014 1:06:18 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
It has the makings of a royal mess for “King Barack.”
Monday morning’s Supreme Court argument about the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases went badly for the Obama administration — so much so that the real question before the justices seemed to be how severe the EPA’s loss would be.
The administration’s solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, pleaded with the justices to recognize the “urgent problem” of climate change, because the “threat to future generations gets worse” with each passing year.
But as the argument played out, the court’s swing justice, Anthony Kennedy, made clear that he agreed with the conservatives that the administration had gone too far in its carbon-dioxide regulations. Even some of the liberal justices voiced skepticism about the Justice Department’s position.
“I know litigants hate this question,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told Verrilli. She asked which of two rationales he would prefer “if you were going to lose.”
“I knew you were going to ask me that question,” the solicitor general replied.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Roberts will obey his lord and master.
I don’t trust ‘em as far as I could throw ‘em.
So now SCOTUS decides scientific issues too? Ridiculous.
“Have the oceans truly risen? Anybody? Bueller?
Predictably they have, every six hours or so, but so far they have always receded.
In case you haven't noticed...the Obama regime is busily shutting down coal powered and nuclear plants.....good luck getting much power from snow laden solar panels and frozen windmills.
With our current Supreme Court and its' ruling on Obamacare it is now "Damn the Constitution! Anything goes!"
Did it just seem that long because no one had TV or the internet?
What do sunspots have to do with the production of of electricity vis a vis coal?
What is the SCOTUS even doing hearing this? The Congress should have clamped down on the EPA by defunding it long ago. The whole agency needs to be shut down.
Exactly.
Please, please, please legislate from the bench.
Sadly, it’s working for homosexual marriage.
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