The Supreme Court's coming war with Joe Biden, explained

[DonViejo]

The Supreme Court is poised to give itself a veto power over much of the Biden administration’s authority.

By Ian Millhiser Mar 27, 2021, 9:00am EDT

One of Justice Antonin Scalia’s final acts was to strike down President Obama’s plan to stave off the climate crisis.

On February 9, 2016 — the last Tuesday of Scalia’s life — the Supreme Court handed down an unexpected order announcing a stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions rules for many power plants. The vote was 5-4, along party lines, with Scalia joining his fellow conservatives in the majority.

The environmental regulations blocked by this order were commonly known as the Clean Power Plan, and they were the Obama administration’s most ambitious effort to fight climate change. Had the Clean Power Plan taken effect, the EPA predicted that by 2030 it would have reduced overall carbon dioxide emissions from utility power plants 32 percent from where they were in 2005.

But the Clean Power Plan never took effect. Though the Supreme Court’s order halting the plan was temporary, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory all but ensured that it would not be revived. Even if the Trump administration hadn’t replaced this Obama-era policy with a significantly weaker rule, the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to fill Scalia’s vacant seat signaled the Supreme Court would be highly likely to strike down the Clean Power Plan permanently if given the chance.

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[DanieRains]

1. The Fascist Court

That answers to the Koch Empire.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. There's something in the air...

I sense (I'm an amateur sensor) that there's a subtle but pervasive shift in political alliances among the population that calls itself "conservative." There's an emerging realization that the climate crisis is real and is moving outside the realm of political discourse. The USSC must deal directly with the existential ramifications of climate change, and must view climate as substantially bigger than federalism, or originalism, or any other political context. Climate change is about living and breathing for all people and organisms.

If the USSC cannot grasp the importance of this pivotal moment, they are truly out of touch and are defining themselves as obsolete and a danger to the health of the planet.