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U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo issued a temporary injunction against a the rule which would have given the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers authority over some streams, tributaries and wetlands under the Clean Water Act. The rule was scheduled to take effect Friday.

The really maddening part of this abuse is that the bureaucrats have been slapped down three times since the 70s on this very subject.
The Corps of Engineers and the EPA have been taking turns pushing this particular envelope, and lost every time. The issue is two-fold : "Navigable waters," the definition of which to the reasonable man is obvious. To qualify, the stream, waterway or ditch (!) should be navigable more often than not throughout each year. The environment gestapo chooses to make up their own definition.

The other is "wetlands," a much more insidious "policy." affecting ever square inch of rural private property, including driveways, front yards, empty fields, the area between a farmhouse and the barn (!)
If specific vegetation deemed water dependent(!) take root, the feds think they can claim it. Entire properties have been compromised and rendered useless, or random private property owners bankrupted.

WITH NO CONSEQUENCES TO THE CRIMINAL "ADMINISTRATORS!"

WITH NO CONSEQUENCES TO THE CRIMINAL "ADMINISTRATORS!"

IF Congress had any gonads, they would write into every bill passed, the administrators could be held liable for damages if their rulings are overturned by a Federal court. That would stop much of this type of overreach.