Anonymous ID: 8d06eb July 26, 2022, 12:52 p.m. No.16829232   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9433

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Supreme Court climate case might end regulation

 

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision in the coming days or weeks that could curtail EPA’s ability to drive down carbon emissions at power plants.

But it could go much further than that.

Legal experts are waiting to see if the ruling in West Virginia v. EPA begins to chip away at the ability of federal agencies — all of them, not just EPA — to write and enforce regulations. It would foreshadow a power shift with profound consequences, not just for climate policy but virtually everything the executive branch does, from directing air traffic to protecting investors.

 

The scope of the decision might not be immediately obvious, said Sambhav Sankar, Earthjustice’s senior vice president for programs.

“Everybody is going to be reading tea leaves when it comes out,” he said.

At issue is a petition by coal companies and Republican state attorneys general to bar EPA from writing a rule to require more energy be derived from low-carbon sources like wind, solar and nuclear, and less from coal. They’re targeting the Obama-era Clean Power Plan — a climate rule that was never put into effect and which has been disavowed by EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

That made the high court’s decision last year to take up the case unusual. It might be explained, some legal experts surmise, as an attempt by the court’s expanded conservative majority to say something new about regulation. Maybe the decision will make “systemwide” climate rules on power plants off limits for good — an echo of what has already happened with the Clean Power Plan.

 

But others say there could be a deeper impact. Indeed, an orbit-altering transformation to regulations.

 

The most conservative members of the high court might use West Virginia v. EPA as an opportunity to signal — perhaps in a concurring opinion that goes further than the majority opinion — that federal agencies can no longer expect deference from the court when they write rules that expand on the instructions given to them by Congress.

“The broader picture of what may be happening is that the Court is firing a shot across the bow of the regulatory state to say, ‘Stop thinking about new problems or improved solutions to old ones, just think of your job narrowly and imagine yourself back at the time when Congress wrote the enabling statute — even if that was 1970,’” said Sankar, who clerked for Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired in 2006.

 

There are two legal doctrines that get at this broad theme: Because Article I of the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to Congress, it must guide regulation while the executive branch’s primary role is to implement and enforce it.

The first is the nondelegation doctrine, which holds that Congress cannot ask federal agencies to write regulations that have the force of law. That’s Congress’ job alone, it asserts…

 

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Anonymous ID: 8d06eb July 26, 2022, 12:52 p.m. No.16829393   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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POPE HAILS CARDINAL WHO HIRED GAY HOOKERS

Vatican's second-in-command covered up high-level clerical sex abuse

by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • June 1, 2022

 

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The world's most powerful cardinal of recent times, who served under three popes, was outed the day after his death as a homosexual who rented gay prostitutes.

 

In the face of the explosive revelations of the prelate's gay lifestyle, Pope Francis paid glowing tribute to Cdl. Angelo Sodano, describing him as an "ecclesially disciplined man, a lovely shepherd, animated by the desire to spread the yeast of the gospel everywhere."

 

In a telegram of condolence to Sodano's sister, Francis praised the cardinal as an "esteemed man of the Church, who generously lived his priesthood first in the diocese of Asti and then, for the rest of his long life, in service of the Holy See."

 

On Saturday, French investigative journalist Frédéric Martel disclosed Sodano's identity as the pseudonymous cardinal nicknamed "La Mongolfiera" ("hot air balloon") in his explosive book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy.

 

"I can reveal now that the person called 'La Mongolfiera' in my book #Sodoma (the Italian title of the book) was #AngeloSodano. My rule was not to reveal the homosexuality of a living priest or cardinal. Now that he is dead, the truth can be written," Martel tweeted.

 

Cardinal Sodano was implicated in most of the major abuse cover-ups by the Vatican

 

In a second tweet, Martel called Sodano a "great diplomatic figure" and a "nuncio of the extreme Right in Chile, friend of Pinochet, active homosexual, defender of innumerable pedophile priests" and "the hero of my book #Sodoma (La Mongolfiera)."

 

Sodano, who was second-in-command to Pope John Paul II as Vatican secretary of state from 1991 and continued in office for a year under Pope Benedict XVI, formed "the first 'ring of lust' around the Holy Father," the journalist wrote in his 2019 runaway bestseller.

 

Martel revealed that Sodano, a second pseudonymous cardinal — "Platinette" — and an unnamed bishop were "regular clients of the Roman male prostitutes, with whom they host foursomes."

 

The prelates used a network of trusted Vatican intermediaries and money from the Vatican coffers to pay for luxury escorts — costing up to 2,000 euros per evening, Martel disclosed, earning the cardinals the "ironic nickname" of "the ATM priests."

 

In his book, Martel does not reveal the identity of the intermediaries but names one of the network's ringleaders as "Negretto," a Nigerian member of the Vatican choir. A second intermediary, who is married, is characterized as a "gentleman of His Holiness."

 

Cops Bust Pimps

In 2010, Italian police outed Negretto as Thomas Chinedu Ehiem after obtaining over a year's supply of wiretapped phone conversations revealing the operation of a gay prostitution network.

 

Police also arrested the "gentleman to his Holiness," naming him as Angelo Balducci, who was part of an elite group of ushers whose task is to serve at the apostolic palace when visiting dignitaries meet the pope.

 

The Vatican immediately terminated the positions of both Ehiem and Balducci following the arrests. Police shut down the prostitution network but were unable to charge the main clients, Cdls. La Mongolfiera and Platinette, given their Vatican immunity.

 

A lieutenant colonel in the Italian carabinieri told Martel that the cardinals couldn't be called in for questioning because of theirdiplomatic immunity. He explained, "As soon as they were implicated in a scandal, they were automatically protected."

 

"They sought shelter behind the ramparts of the Holy See. Likewise, we couldn't search their bags, even if we suspected them of drug trafficking, for example, or take them in for questioning," the officer added.

 

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Cardinal Sodona was referred to as "The Godfather"