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2023-05-29 Government Corruption
The Supreme Court Just Voted Unanimously To Rein In Biden's EPA
[Daily Caller] In a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the EPA had overstepped its authority with its attempt to massively expand its regulatory scope under the Clean Water Act.

The Court unanimously ruled for the plaintiffs in the case, styled Sackett v. EPA, who had challenged the agency’s ruling they could not make productive use of property they purchased decades ago using a rationale that would vastly expand the law’s original intent. As written, the Clean Water Act allows EPA to regulate the "navigable waters of the United States," a term that had, prior to the agency’s overreach in the Sackett case, been held to mean a body of water that could be navigated by a vessel.

For the last 17 years, the Sackett family has been entangled with the agency over some patches of sporadic wetlands that appear on their property during rainy seasons, which the EPA wishes to regulate under this "navigable body of water" clause. Writing for the majority in a more narrowly-divided concurring decision that will now govern the specific allowable interpretation of the law, Justice Samuel Alito holds that only wetlands that are "indistinguishable" from larger nearby bodies of water can be regulated under the Clean Water Act.

"Wetlands that are separate from traditional navigable waters cannot be considered part of those waters, even if they are located nearby," Alito wrote.

The final dispensation of this case should help to resolve a long-running battle of writing, rescinding and re-writing of "Waters of the United States" regulations that go back to the George W. Bush administration. The EPA started the process of drafting such a regulation in the 2007/08 time frame, but it was never formally proposed under the Administrative Procedures Act which governs the federal regulatory process.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-29 02:49|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 I guess it is safe for me to buy a lawn sprinkler.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-29 08:23||   2023-05-29 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice opening for a company to advertise toilets and shower heads designed as God, not Algore, intended.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:29||   2023-05-29 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ I guess it is safe for me to buy a lawn sprinkler.

Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn't purchase it with a credit card. Pre-dawn use (and retrieval) is also recommended.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-29 08:36||   2023-05-29 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I wouldn't purchase it with a credit card. Pre-dawn use (and retrieval) is also recommended.

Heh...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:42||   2023-05-29 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 SCOTUS - "How dare the administrative branch assume powers not granted to it by Congress. That's a privilege we grant to ourselves!"
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-29 09:10||   2023-05-29 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 In a unanimous vote

A Pyrrhic victory?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-29 10:17||   2023-05-29 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 P.S. - From the Dubya Administration?

No, this system of government isn't broken. No, sir-ee.

Congrats to the Sackett family.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-29 10:22||   2023-05-29 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 And Chuckie Schumer calls the Supreme Court the MAGA court. Dumb statement of the year.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-05-29 12:02||   2023-05-29 12:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, if you're not with him, you are MAGA. If you don't vote for Joe, you can't even be black.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 12:18||   2023-05-29 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Buying a Slip and Slide is no longer an act of insurrection.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-29 12:32||   2023-05-29 12:32|| Front Page Top

#11 The SCROTUS still seems to believe in fidelity to the Constitution.

When they don't take a case, I think it's because they know they'd have to rule in a way that would upset too many apple carts at the same time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 12:38||   2023-05-29 12:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Nice to know that some bureaucratic overreaches are too much even for the lefty judges. There is hope.
Posted by Tom 2023-05-29 13:06||   2023-05-29 13:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Will the ruling affect the administration of regulations? In any case other than this? Without five years of appeals? To whatever SCOTUS rules then?
Posted by Glenmore  2023-05-29 17:17||   2023-05-29 17:17|| Front Page Top

#14 It is a second step back for the EPA. They will continue their tyranny, but the first arm has been lopped off the black knight.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-29 19:42||   2023-05-29 19:42|| Front Page Top

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