Posted on 05/27/2009 12:25:37 PM PDT by pissant
The Bush administration acted illegally when it rescinded an efficiency standard for air-conditioners, an appeals court said Tuesday in reinstating the standard with a decision that favored 10 states and various environmental organizations.
The rule, which applies to central air-conditioners for houses, was one of several published by the Clinton administration during its last few days in office. It was effectively rescinded in a memorandum sent by Andrew H. Card Jr., chief of staff in the Bush White House, to the Energy Department, which formally acted in the early months of the new administration.
Tuesday's decision, by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, appears to put limits on the power of a new president to reverse policies of his predecessor. It establishes that once a rule is published in the Federal Register, it cannot be reversed without a lengthy administrative process, even if it has not yet taken effect; the air-conditioner rule does not become effective until 2006.
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The case was decided by Judges James L. Oakes, an appointee of President Richard M. Nixon, and Sonia Sotomayor, who was appointed to the bench by the first President George Bush and later to the appeals court by President Bill Clinton.
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We are in trouble and getting deeper by the day. Liberals used to care about what happened to their country. Now they are in the business of destroying it.
Repub Senators need to ask if Obama has the right to rescind orders put in place by Bush.
Good grief, this was over 5 years ago!
Yes, that’s why I put the date on the article.
Well, it took me long enough but I finally snapped. Didn’t make the Dodomayor/Sotomayor connection till now.
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