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As Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change, Justices Weigh His Approach
As Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change, Justices Weigh His Approach
By ADAM LIPTAKFEB. 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama in recent days has been announcing muscular executive actions to address climate change, making good on his promise to act on pressing problems “with or without Congress.” On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider the limits of that approach, in a case on greenhouse gas emissions.
The justices are poised to decide whether the Obama administration went too far in trying to regulate emissions from stationary sources like power plants. In the process, they are likely to weigh in on a central Republican critique of Mr. Obama: that he is misusing his executive authority.
....President Obama announced the development of tough new fuel standards for heavy-duty trucks while in Maryland on Tuesday.Obama Orders New Efficiency for Big TrucksFEB. 18, 2014
“It is far more important as a matter of optics than of actual legal consequences,” she said. If the government loses, she said, “it would be painted as another situation in which the Obama administration has overreached against the public will.”
Briefs filed in the Supreme Court by business groups and Republican lawmakers pressed that theme, one that hewed closely to criticism of the administration’s delays in carrying out the Affordable Care Act, its decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, and its tolerance of state marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington.
A brief from Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and other House Republicans said ...
By ADAM LIPTAKFEB. 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama in recent days has been announcing muscular executive actions to address climate change, making good on his promise to act on pressing problems “with or without Congress.” On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider the limits of that approach, in a case on greenhouse gas emissions.
The justices are poised to decide whether the Obama administration went too far in trying to regulate emissions from stationary sources like power plants. In the process, they are likely to weigh in on a central Republican critique of Mr. Obama: that he is misusing his executive authority.
....President Obama announced the development of tough new fuel standards for heavy-duty trucks while in Maryland on Tuesday.Obama Orders New Efficiency for Big TrucksFEB. 18, 2014
“It is far more important as a matter of optics than of actual legal consequences,” she said. If the government loses, she said, “it would be painted as another situation in which the Obama administration has overreached against the public will.”
Briefs filed in the Supreme Court by business groups and Republican lawmakers pressed that theme, one that hewed closely to criticism of the administration’s delays in carrying out the Affordable Care Act, its decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, and its tolerance of state marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington.
A brief from Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and other House Republicans said ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/us/politics/in-emissions-case-supreme-court-to-consider-the-limits-of-obamas-authority.html