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There’s one begging to be overturned.
Oh, look - a Federal judge-president has weighed in...
Did the lawyer from the Government stipulate to the strawman climate change argument? There’s a whole series of arguments that would need to be proven before you ever get ‘round to “and coal mining should be reduced”.
Ok. Considering... ... ... and, no.
ML/NJ
Adjudge doesn’t have the authority to regulate climate
No, they don’t. Judges don’t set policy.
No, they don’t. Judges don’t set policy.
Lease the lands or give them back to the native Americans. Lets see the bastards stop it then.
The Powder River coal deposits are estimated to be slightly greater than 1 trillion tons.
They are being mined at a rate slightly in excess of 1 million tons per day (that’s a train consisting of 100 cars, each containing 100 tons of coal, every 15 minutes, 24 hours per day).
If it had been mined at that rate, starting at the time of Christ, it could continue to be mined for another 500 years into the future.
And that’s only a small part of the overall world coal deposits.
And all that carbon was once in the atmosphere.
I wish the electric companies would shut the power plants down for two or three weeks in protest. Lets see what the C-suckers have to say after that.
” Morris ruled that not considering alternatives that would result in less mining violated the National Environmental Policy Act.”
Huh?
The judge is guilty of obstruction of governance
Legislating from bench. Should be removed from office one way or the other.
It is almost April, and I’m freezing in the south.
"U.S. government officials who engage in regional planning for an area of Wyoming and Montana that supplies 40 percent of the nation’s coal must consider reducing coal mining as a way to fight climate change, a judge has ruled."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While it would probably be a good idea if the feds had some limited express constitutional authority to police the environment, please consider the following.
A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court Justices had clarified the clear meaning of the 10th Amendment, that powers that the states have not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds, protecting the environment or politically correct climate change not listed among those delegated powers.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the like wise reasonably clear scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), state sovereignty-respecting justices had also clarified that the states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So with all due respect to the referenced judge, wherever he went to law school, the school is evidently not teaching the fed’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding states had intended for those powers to be understood.
Patriots need to work with their federal and state lawmakers to weed institutionally indoctrinated judges out of the system imo.
Then after members of Congress thank patriots and state lawmakers for helping them to do their job, patriots need to exercise their voting power to weed out career lawmakers.
Folks, we really need to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
So U.S. District Judge Brian Morris has pulled that ruling out of his, um, back pocket.
No doubt he had to consult some ‘penumbras’ to justify it.
This is not in the law, and the Judge is over reaching.