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The EPA Had a Bad Day at the Supreme Court
Reason ^ | Jan 10 2012 | Damon Root

Posted on 01/10/2012 7:50:42 PM PST by WilliamIII

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue is whether the EPA’s use of “administrative compliance orders,” which are essentially government commands issued to property owners, should be subject to judicial review under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. In other words, when the EPA tells a homeowner to stop building because of a possible violation of the Clean Water Act, does that homeowner have the right to promptly challenge the EPA in court? As Robert Barnes observes in The Washington Post, “Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared troubled by the EPA’s position that Mike and Chantell Sackett do not have the right to go court to challenge the agency’s wetlands decision.” Barnes continues:

The government has said the EPA’s power to issue compliance orders, with its threats of huge fines, is a way to quickly move to stop environmental damage. Allowing polluters to go to court would tie up the agency in litigation.

But several justices seemed to agree with the Sacketts’s lawyer, Damien M. Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation, that those subject to the EPA orders should not have to wait for the agency to decide whether to go to court.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: default; dollarcollapse; economy; ecoterrorism; epa; greenreligion; populationcontrol; sackett; scotussackett; starvethebeast; wetlands
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To: Hoosier-Daddy; hinckley buzzard

What we need to do is to force Congress to define the penalties for each act against the Constitution, so if these bureaucrats are accused and convicted, there is no question of evading penalty. It should include fines on individuals, jail time, prison time and in extreme cases the death penalty, I suppose.

The lack of penalty for wrong doing is one reason, I believe, that we have such an out of control government.


21 posted on 01/10/2012 8:56:54 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: WilliamIII

This should be a unanimous decision reversing the Ninth Circus and ruling for the People over the bureaucrats. Hopefully, we get a broad ruling aimed at the all of the unelected minions in the federal government.


22 posted on 01/10/2012 8:57:58 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: hedgetrimmer

I had no idea, wow —I rollerblade and dive there all the time.

I sometimes played frisbee with some of the CG dudes there.

I’m so disappointed to hear this.

NOAA already has a large and fancy facility near the lighthouse on Asilomar, in the dunes near Spanish Bay.

The way they’ve decorated it with art you would NEVER guess they’re ecp storm-troopers, but then again maybe that’s the idea.


23 posted on 01/10/2012 9:21:41 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

They took over the bottom floor of the dormitory last year, and some of the offices in the Comm center.

But they won’t be happy until they have the whole facility.

They are the most arrogant and anti-human ‘public servants’ I ever met.


24 posted on 01/10/2012 9:56:29 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: WilliamIII

“The EPA Had a Bad Day at the Supreme Court”

We can hope, one in a long string of bad days especially starting at the beginning of next year.


25 posted on 01/10/2012 10:04:39 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: existtoexcel

Some years ago the local municipal golf course was planning some alterations, and I played the course one day and got to see the pink flags sticking out of puddles. Well, maybe a big and persistent puddle along the edge of one fairway, but believe me it was no more than a puddle. Even so that pink flag made it a kingdom, unless I was seeing the whole thing wrong.


26 posted on 01/10/2012 10:34:49 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: WilliamIII; All
Found an interesting, and very valid, Opinion from the Supreme Court at The Environmental Protection Agency U-n-c-o-n-s-t-i-t-u-t-i-o-n-a-l by Sheriff Richard Mack.

US Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrote the following commentary in his delivered Opinion for the case Printz v. United States (95-1478), 521 U.S. 898 (1997)

We do need a federal EPA to coordinate the various State EPA's, but that could be accomplished with ten percent of the middle/upper management and 33 percent of the bureaucrats - terminate the rest.

Looks as if this is going to be another slap-down for the EPA and the greenazis infesting it!

27 posted on 01/11/2012 1:21:54 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: WilliamIII

It’s interesting that Breyer has qualms after being one of five liberal/swing votes in Kelo that gave government expansive powers. That didn’t work out too well, maybe he noticed.


28 posted on 01/11/2012 3:13:24 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: brityank
We do need a federal EPA to coordinate the various State EPA's,

If so, why not just fold those functions back into Interior and close EPA down ?

29 posted on 01/11/2012 3:18:45 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

17,384 EPA employees on the bread line sounds fine to me .. (2010 numbers ,, probably at least 20% higher now)


30 posted on 01/11/2012 4:17:16 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: WilliamIII; Army Air Corps; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; grey_whiskers; ApplegateRanch; Whenifhow; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

31 posted on 01/11/2012 4:50:30 AM PST by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: G Larry

Newt already has and does. He’s for abolishing it and creating something else (with new people) which has less control.


32 posted on 01/11/2012 12:30:58 PM PST by thatjoeguy (MAYDAY! MAYDAY! We are so going in ! !)
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