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    One More Huge SCOTUS Decision Could Still Be Coming


    One more blockbuster Supreme Court decision could still be coming even after Friday's abortion ruling

    Supreme Court's abortion ruling rocked nation last week but West Virginia v. EPA could also be huge

    One more blockbuster Supreme Court decision could still be coming even after Friday'''s abortion ruling | Fox News

    Believe it or not, overturning Roe v. Wade may not be the Supreme Court's most dramatic decision this year. Instead, its ruling on West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency could prove far more consequential.

    It could literally upend how our government works.

    For the better.


    West Virginia vs. the EPA asks whether important policies that impact the lives of all Americans should be made by unelected D.C. bureaucrats or by Congress. This SCOTUS could well decide that ruling by executive agency fiat is no longer acceptable.

    The case involves the Clean Power Plan, which was adopted under President Barack Obama to fight climate change; the program was estimated to cost as much as $33 billion per year and would have completely reordered our nation's power grid. The state of West Virginia, joined by two coal companies and others, sued the EPA, arguing the plan was an abuse of power.

    By deciding in favor of West Virginia, the court could begin to rein in the vast powers of the alphabet agencies in D.C. that run our lives and return it to legislators whom we elect to create...legislation. Just as the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that abortion laws are more appropriately left up to the people's elected representatives, it may decide in West Virginia vs. EPA that Congress, and not federal agencies, should write our laws.

    A decision that puts Congress in charge would stall environmental rules intended to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Legislators, back in the driver's seat, would have to debate and go public with the consequences – and costs -- of regulations that are now adopted with little buy-in from the public.

    To further their climate agenda, Democrats have been able to hide the full-in price tag of abandoning oil and gas as our main energy sources by creating tax subsidies for renewables. If consumers had to pay the real cost of wind and solar power, they might not be so enthusiastic about what President Joe Biden calls the great "transition."

    But the case goes beyond environmental regulations.

    A ruling in favor of West Virginia would reverse a decades-long trend in which Congress has handed off to federal agencies decisions our legislators refuse or are unable to make. The usurping of authority by D.C. bureaucracies began with the New Deal in the 1930s, when an ambitious President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the way by creating the TVA, the WPA and a total of 69 other offices and executive branch agencies to do his bidding. The process occasioned Democrat Al Smith to complain that he was "submerged in a bowl of alphabet soup."

    Restricting the power of the alphabet soup authorities might require that our representatives and senators actually do their jobs, allowing less time for posturing and passing pointless dead-on-arrival bills. They might have to show up more than half the days in the year, for instance, which is the current norm....



    ...In addition to broad environmental rules that might come under new scrutiny, subsequent suits might challenge labor laws written by the NLRB, consumer protection edicts from the CFPB, and regulations put in place by the FDA, the CDC and the entire host of agencies that have immense – many would say excess – power over our lives.

    But initially, the ruling would deep-six the Biden administration's ambition to kill off the coal industry, which is why West Virginia, our nation's second biggest coal-mining state after Wyoming, brought the suit, along with Westmoreland Mining Holdings, North American Coal Corporation and others. ...



    ...This back-and-forth highlights an obvious problem with government by alphabet soup. Successive administrations can easily change the rules by which such agencies operate. Policymaking ; therefore, is erratic and inconsistent. Especially in the power arena, where new facilities can take years to build and the impact on the general population can be profound, this is a costly and inefficient way to govern.

    Political parties rise and fall, to be sure, and can also change the nation's direction. But matters of consequence should be argued in the public forum and not buried under the almost 100,000 pages of new rules and regulations published during Obama's last year in office, for instance.

    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote in a decision, "We expect Congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign to an agency decisions of vast 'economic and political significance." That limiting guidance appears to have support from the conservative justices on the court today.

    If the court launches a widespread curtailment of governing by executive agency, as it should, we will see more protests and renewed cries to "Pack the Court," including from members of Congress. After all, they'll have to get to work.










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    Yupper, another one coming. We are on a roll.

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    Aaaaaand, we have a winner!!

    This should greatly hinder the globalist agenda to regulate us into the stone age.

    In a majority opinion authored by chief justice John Roberts, the justices ruled that in the latest example of Democratic overreach, the Environmental Protection Agency was not specifically authorized by Congress to reduce carbon emissions when it was set up in 1970. The ruling leaves the Biden administration dependent on passing legislation if it wants to implement sweeping regulations to curb emissions.

    The opinion from the court's conservative majority said that "a decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body". The justices added they doubted Congress intended to delegate the question of "how much coal-based generation there should be over the coming decades, to any administrative agency".
    In Landmark Ruling, Supreme Court Deals Massive Blow To Biden'''s Climate Change Agenda | ZeroHedge

    John Roberts ?! What's going on ...

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    John Roberts ?! What's going on ...
    Maybe he fell and hit his head. Or got real religion.

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    for whatever reason; I'm incredibly grateful!!! The next session could look a little different. We need to really be praying for the wellbeing and health of the justices.

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