5-4 RULING TEMPORARILY BLOCKS IMPLEMENTATION OF AGENCY’S “CLIMATE CHANGE” MANDATES
While the eyes of America were on the presidential primary elections in New Hampshire, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a surprise rebuke of the current occupant of the Oval Office.
By a 5-4 vote, the increasingly left-leaning court ruled against the ongoing enforcement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s so-called “clean power plan.”
They didn’t strike the EPA’s new mandates down … they just ruled that the agency couldn’t enforce them while the merits of a lawsuit filed by 29 states was pending.
Obama’s administration was undeterred, with a White House spokesman saying “we remain confident that we will prevail on the merits.”
Meanwhile GOP lawmakers claimed they would support the states in this fight.
“Republicans will do what we can to keep this rule permanently blocked,” U.S. Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming tweeted.
Will they, though?
Last December, the “Republican-controlled” Congress passed some ceremonial votes stripping funding for this rule – but when the final $1.15 trillion boondoggle was passed, the enforcement money remained in the budget along with funding for a host of other Obama agenda items.
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The EPA is right-wing.
Thank goodness, for a second there I was afraid we might get clean, efficient, sustainable energy for once! Can’t have that! LMAO!!!
Generally it’s a good idea to develop the “…clean, efficient, sustainable energy…” that is affordable and available before you shut off the existing power supply…
Develop clean, efficient, sustainable energy? Well that’s what the government funds with grants and subsidies that Republicans try to kill.
It’s OK to admit that Republicans are against green energy because they are in the pocket of oil and coal industries. We all know it is true.
don’t forget the koch suckers too, lots of law makers sucking up koch money
Bovine Excreta – Big Government grants and subsidies funded Solyndra, a $535 million dollar boondoggle. The real work is being done at universities and private labs all over the country with minimal “government funds with grants and subsidies” and that’s where the real breakthroughs will come from.
we did’nt let the apollo 1 fire stop us from going to the moon, those were the good old days when America set a course they got there. the “we can’ts” really are bringing this country down.
Who is suggesting we stop anything (except for wasteful and probably fraudulent use of gubamint money on political supports, a la Solyndra
Sounds like a statement I have revered since 1976. “Govt. can’t solve your problem. Govt. IS the problem.” RR The truest political statement of all time.
The only sustainable energy is energy that does not require government mandates or subsidies. Arizona is finding out the hard weay
mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached, that is a quote from the biggest right wing nut on the supreme court, 5 to 4 to suspend it until a ruling, lets hope at least on other judge believes in facts when they rule.
That’s not what Scalia said: http://news.lawreader.com/2008/08/30/barry-miller-widely-published-scalia-quote-re-innocense-is-inaccurate-we-have-to-agree/
it is what he said, he justified it by ruling there is no protection under the constitution once you are found guilty
That is not what he said. If there is evidence of improper actions in the original conviction, it can be overturned. There are other reasons for overturning a conviction also.
when witnesses make a mistake or lie, the court has not acted improperly, and oh yeah, a snowball has a better chance in hell than a innocent person getting a pardon in a red state.
Slightly better chance… SC was BLUE when they were convicted but RED when pardoned or exonerated.
South Carolina
Chester County
Two black brothers Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of John Q. Lewis, a Confederate veteran, and executed in the electric chair. They were pardoned in 2009.
Clarendon County
Fourteen-year-old black George Stinney was convicted of the 1944 murder of two white girls and executed in the electric chair within three months of his conviction. He was exonerated in 2014.
so there really may be something to that, justice delayed is justice denied thingy.
But things have gotten better since SC became a Red state.
rand paul tried that out speaking to students at Howard University, did’nt work out to well, i grew up in this state where the saying was vote democrat locally and republican nationally, they were just republicans who lied about who they were because Lincoln was a republican, they are slightly better now, they are not lying about who they really are now
It’s the democrats that lie about who they are.
PAGE 8. What democrats don’t want you to know. And look at SC.
http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/2013/BlackImprisonment.pdf
How come people don’t know that every year since Haley took office, that the number of prison inmates has declined?
http://www.doc.sc.gov/pubweb/research/SystemOverview/AvgPop_FY1970-2015.pdf
GO to page 8, and see if you can identify the red and blue states.
http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/2013/BlackImprisonment.pdf
Here’s the real full quote:
” …our habeas jurisprudence makes clear that a claim of “actual innocence” is not itself a constitutional claim, but instead a gateway through which a habeas petitioner must pass to have his otherwise barred constitutional claim considered on the merits.”
“ We may assume, for the sake of argument in deciding this case, that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstration of “actual innocence” made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional, and warrant federal habeas relief if there were no state avenue open to process such a claim. But because of the very disruptive effect that entertaining claims of actual innocence would have on the need for finality in capital cases, and the enormous burden that having to retry cases based on often stale evidence would place on the States, the threshold showing for such an assumed right would necessarily be extraordinarily high. The showing made by petitioner in this case falls far short of any such threshold.
[and here is the context] Petitioner’s newly discovered evidence consists of affidavits. In the new trial context, motions based solely upon affidavits are disfavored because the affiants’ statements are obtained without the benefit of cross-examination and an opportunity to make credibility determinations. See Orfield, 2 Vill.L.Rev., at 333.”
That pesky Constitution. Gets in the way of so many good deeds on the right side of history. For once, Roberts didn’t just defer to whatever crapola the political class pumped out.
The actual case may not be heard by the Supremes until 1917.
Someone must really be far out on the fringe to view the current Court as “increasingly left-leaning” on anything other than social issues.
There are three branches of government for a reason. You can’t always have it your way, be you…We the People, Congress or President.
These 5 to 4 decisions are getting old. I just hope that President Trump can get four or five appointments to SCOTUS .Ginsburg has been dead for at least two or three years but refuses to fall over. Scalia and Thomas are getting old and Roberts is unreliable. Leaving Alito in the young and conservative group. Roberts, Cagen and Sotomayor are young but not on our side enough. I would like to see six three decisions for a while.
Obummer is trying to put the coal business out of business before alternative sources are proven. That is a recipe for bankrupting the country.