Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by philosopher1234 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:27PM (#31935707)

>The purpose of SCOTUS isn’t to rule based on what the desired outcome is, it’s to rule based on what the law explicitly does say and is permitted to say per the Constitution

I claim they have never done this. That every ruling has had an eye towards the outcome, whether stated or unstated, and that when they claim to be acting as mechanistic evaluators they are attempting to hide their interest in the effect they're having.

Besides, its a terrible idea. The real effects of their rulings matter much more than the philosophy.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by pfortuny on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:33PM (#31935777)

The burden of proof on such a sweeping statement is clearly on you…

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by philosopher1234 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:36PM (#31935818)

How do you prove whats in anothers heart? Its not provable.

But if you dont try and figure it out, you can't understand the world.

If you don't think its true, why not?

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by rayiner on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:13PM (#31936298)

> Besides, its a terrible idea. The real effects of their rulings matter much more than the philosophy.

If that's your view, then we should just abolish courts. What's the point of having unelected legislators?

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by philosopher1234 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:33PM (#31941070)

Your counter argument is that this implies uncomfortable things about our social structure?

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by specialist on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:21PM (#31936422)

WRT so-called "textualism" and "originalism", I fully agree.

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