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Breaking: Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals puts a NATIONAL stay on Obama’s EPA Water Power Grab
Redstate ^ | ctober 9th, 2015 at 12:30 PM | Moe Lane

Posted on 10/09/2015 9:51:15 AM PDT by 100American

OK, here’s the background. Once upon a time, the Obama administration decided to implement a ruling – without the input of Congress, mind you – that defined ““waters of the U.S.” to include virtually any wet area — even a rain-fed temporary pool — that is close to any other body of water with a physical connection to a navigable waterway.” As you can imagine, this was and is a massive attempt to extend the reach of the regulatory State into areas that they do not traditionally have the ability to go into. By making essentially all waters federal waters, federal bureaucrats are then free to institute regulations and fines and exemptions and all the rest.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cleanwateract; epa; epaoutofcontrol; epawaterrule; sixthcircuit; water; waterrule
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EPA stopped momentarily, they need to make it permanent!
1 posted on 10/09/2015 9:51:15 AM PDT by 100American
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To: 100American

I wonder how he’ll punish them.


2 posted on 10/09/2015 9:52:57 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: 100American

Thankful for a small victory for sanity. Hope this does not get to the Supreme Court.


3 posted on 10/09/2015 9:57:39 AM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: george76

FYI


4 posted on 10/09/2015 10:00:48 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TBP

Make them add the other colors in the Rainbow silly!!


5 posted on 10/09/2015 10:01:36 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American

This will likely stay it for the rest of his term.
The key now is electing a POTUS who will reverse it.


6 posted on 10/09/2015 10:05:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Yes, it looks to me like at least some in the judiciary are ready to "fall on the ball" since the GOP dopes in Congress can't seem to find it in themselves to do this.
7 posted on 10/09/2015 10:11:57 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: laplata; MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


8 posted on 10/09/2015 10:15:06 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TBP

IRS Audits on the judges...


9 posted on 10/09/2015 10:17:14 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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EPA triggers another toxic spill in Colorado
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3346703/posts


10 posted on 10/09/2015 10:19:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: 100American

Time to defund the EPA.


11 posted on 10/09/2015 10:29:51 AM PDT by matt04
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To: 100American

* EPA stopped momentarily, they need to make it permanent! *

Maybe the next president can make an executive order to end the EPA


12 posted on 10/09/2015 10:36:08 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: TBP

Obama will find another word to replace Water


13 posted on 10/09/2015 10:40:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: george76

How cool is that?


14 posted on 10/09/2015 11:21:41 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Good news.


15 posted on 10/09/2015 11:58:51 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 100American

Rule 1: All water flows downhill.
Rule 2: All water eventually ends up in the oceans.

Therfore, acording to the EPA, all your waters are belong to us.


16 posted on 10/09/2015 12:28:08 PM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: 100American

Rule 1: All water flows downhill.
Rule 2: All water eventually ends up in the oceans.

Therfore, acording to the EPA, all your waters are belong to us.


17 posted on 10/09/2015 12:28:09 PM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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18 posted on 10/09/2015 12:30:03 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: beelzepug

According to the Law of the Sea Treaty we signed any waterway navigable from the Ocean inward may come under the Jurisdiction of the UN

My Sister (God Rest her Soul) shared this with me, she was also a Repub, Tea Party Baby


19 posted on 10/09/2015 2:20:22 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American

I remember Bush pushing hard to get the law of the sea treaty passed and we here on free republic put stop to it.


20 posted on 10/17/2015 11:25:48 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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