Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by yieldcrv on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:25AM (#31933751)

It is rare for the Supreme Court to act as a second Congress. When it has, those are the cases that most likely get overruled. Additionally, old cases with poor and antiquated assumptions get overturned (not relevant here, just showing a consistency in what is and can be expected to be reviewed.)

Opposing sides of that court have said the exact same thing about Roe v Wade. Ruth Bader Ginsberg even said "this is pretty weak, going to need Congress here", no different than Justice Alito on the opposite side.

I think your perspective is very common, I think it is disingenuous for different people that should know better to promote that perspective. There is so much the elected representatives and the people can do. This crisis of confidence perspective relies on nobody actually reading these cases.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by zeroonetwothree on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:55AM (#31934343)

RBG argued that RvW was decided poorly but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a constitutional right to abortion. There are other sources that could be used for the right than SDP.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by yieldcrv on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:34PM (#31940121)

I’m not familiar with the right’s culture or what the SDP is, maybe you had a better point before that

I agree that Congress or the consensus mechanisms of the states are more accurate authorities.

I also agree that it is wildly disruptive to do this. But for that I empathize, and hope to inspire on other ways of consensus making.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by PuppyTailWags on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:28AM (#31933816)

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is most certainly not an extreme comparable to Alito, lol.

The Supreme Court has acted as a second Congress for a wide variety of things. This is how miranda rights happened. This is how contraception was legalized. This is how homosexuality was legalized. This is how race integration was legalized. ETC.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by yieldcrv on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:17AM (#31943014)

Congress better get to work and find a rationale in the articles and a variety of amendments

(As just one, like interstate commerce, will keep it on the chopping block by the same court)

also, currently people need to be challenging laws and the court has to accept those challenges, if there isn’t political will to still challenge those things then the cases will never happen

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