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07/01/2022 14:42:38
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Trump’s SCOTUS Keeps #Winning with EPA Decision
Thank you, Donald Trump, for “packing”—in your way, not the Democrats’ way—the Supreme Court with sensible people.
Finally, we’re beginning to take the years ago advice of Nat King Cole to “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (in more ways than one).
First came the long overdue overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing the states and the people in them to make their own decisions about abortion (imagine that!).
Now, that great religion substitute, the sainted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been brought at least partially to heel by a 6–3 vote of the court.
And, mirabile dictu, Chief Justice John Roberts himself wrote (pdf) the wise decision (there’s a first), as quoted here at The Epoch Times:
“While ‘[c]apping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day,’” Roberts wrote, quoting a 1992 precedent, “it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d)” of the Clean Air Act.
“A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.”
Of course. Just like Roe v. Wade, decisions of this nature in any sort of democratic government belong to the people—or as close as we can get to them, meaning legislatures—not to the judiciary or, least of all, unelected officials hidden (often for years) in some agency, beholden only to themselves and their patrons.
End of story. But let’s take this a bit further. Has there been anything in the last few decades more open to corruption and boondoggles than the self-righteous, virtue-signaling devotion to the “environment”?
Well, maybe now the vaccines are giving it a run for its money.
The irony is almost all of us love nature and seek to protect it, but the pompous tyrants who call themselves “environmentalists” act as if we don’t, condemning us any time we dissent in the slightest from their religion—this, even though we all know, or should, it’s what you do, not what you say that counts.
Speaking of which, the large Washington demonstrations by the supposedly ultra-right Tea Party Movement (2009) were reported to have been remarkably self-policed and devoid of garbage. Those of the left, like the pink-hatted (being discrete here) mass reaction to Trump’s 2016 election left the nation’s capital an unholy mess.