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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalSupreme Court Curbs EPA's Climate Authority in Blow to Biden
Who is surprised by this?
https://twitter.com/BLaw/status/1542509562778906632
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-curbs-epas-climate-authority-in-blow-to-biden?context=search&index=0
The 6-3 ruling interpreting the US Clean Air Act is likely to keep the administration from imposing the type of wide-ranging emissions-cutting plan the EPA tried to put in place when Barack Obama was president. It limits the agency’s available tools amid increasing evidence that climate change is causing rising sea levels and more extreme weather patterns.
The majority said that, while the EPA can regulate power plant emissions, the agency can’t try to shift power generation away from fossil-fuel plants to cleaner sources, as Obama’s Clean Power Plan sought to do.
The court’s three Democratic-appointed justices -- Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- dissented.
The ruling casts fresh doubt on Biden’s pledge to reduce US emissions in half by the end of decade and his goal of a carbon-free electric grid by 2035. Hitting those targets will be impossible without regulations to stifle greenhouse gases from oil wells, automobiles and power plants, as well as tax incentives designed to spur clean energy, according to several analyses.
Supreme Court Curbs EPA's Climate Authority in Blow to Biden
Source: Bloomberg
The US Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, siding with coal-mining companies and Republican-led states in a blow to President Joe Biden’s climate-change agenda.
The 6-3 ruling interpreting the US Clean Air Act is likely to keep the administration from imposing the type of wide-ranging emissions-cutting plan the EPA tried to put in place when Barack Obama was president. It limits the agency’s available tools amid increasing evidence that climate change is causing rising sea levels and more extreme weather patterns.
The majority said that, while the EPA can regulate power plant emissions, the agency can’t try to shift power generation away from fossil-fuel plants to cleaner sources, as Obama’s Clean Power Plan sought to do.
The court’s three Democratic-appointed justices -- Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- dissented.
The ruling casts fresh doubt on Biden’s pledge to reduce US emissions in half by the end of decade and his goal of a carbon-free electric grid by 2035. Hitting those targets will be impossible without regulations to stifle greenhouse gases from oil wells, automobiles and power plants, as well as tax incentives designed to spur clean energy, according to several analyses.
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-curbs-epas-climate-authority-in-blow-to-biden?context=search&index=0
The latest: Biden says he supports filibuster exception on abortion legislation
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1542503864829562881https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/30/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-live/#link-EOAS5SSSRJE57HGSYLDN4XR3C4
Biden, speaking at a news conference in Madrid, renewed his call for Congress to act in the wake of the Supreme Court decision last week overturning Roe v. Wade.
“And if the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights,” Biden said. “We provide an exception for this.”
Under Senate filibuster rules, 60 votes are required to advance most legislation. Democrats have not been able to advance abortion protections in the evenly divided chamber.
Be aware of people who may be pretending to be election workers to get sensitive info.
https://twitter.com/LWVHouston/status/1542306418140844033Mike Luckovich-Crunch, crunch
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1542239392286314498The White House has unveiled it's official portrait for donald j. trump.
https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1542165174949486594There were a large number of Secret Service agents who were TFG supporters
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1541942324426461184https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1541972469837430784
Legal expert uses OSU wrestling scandal to explain 'hearsay' to non-lawyer Jim Jordan
Gym Jordan went to a 4th or 5th tier law school and was too stupid to take the bar exam. This Exhange made me smile
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1541922755204898816
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-hearsay-osu-wrestlerrs/
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1541906847120199680
.....Attorney Ken White, a partner at Brown, White & Osborn, who blogs under the popular "Popehat" handle on Twitter, brought up Jordan's OSU scandal while explaining hearsay to the non-lawyer.
"So if a player comes up to you and says 'hey coach I went to the team doctor for a bloody nose and he grabbed my genitals instead,' that's not hearsay because he's not repeating an out-of-court statement, it's something that person perceived," White said, appearing to refer to allegations against Jordan by former OSU wrestler Tito Vazquez.
"But if people came to you and said 'hey coach a bunch of people are complaining that the team doctor is perving on them in the showers and doing gratuitous genital exams,' that would be hearsay, because they're talking about other people's statements," White explained.
"Now, say you were being sued for something -- say, some sort of grotesque dereliction of duty for failing to report or stop the serial sexual abuse of people under your care -- and a witness said 'I told coach about it and he said 'I have nothing to do with this.'' That's not hearsay either, because in that case you're a party opponent and a statement of a party opponent is not hearsay. Just like first-hand witness testimony about what Trump said would be a statement of a party opponent in, say, a prosecution of Trump," White explained.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1541858416661934080?s=20&t=Ae2-3Xr1j6KJGjn2tLwwhQ
I enjoy PopeHat's posts
Indicted Colorado clerk refuses to concede after losing SecState bid: 'It's not over'
This lady belongs in jail
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1541995409760866304
https://www.rawstory.com/tina-peters-colorado-2657578484/
"Anderson beat Tina Peters, the embattled County Clerk from Mesa County. Anderson took 44.7% of the votes; Mike O’Donnell took 28.8%; and Peters secured 26.5%," CBS Denver reported.
The Associated Press also projected Anderson won.
Colorado Public Radio reported Peters, "gained a national profile for allegedly violating the security of her office's election equipment to allow an authorized person to hunt for evidence of fraud. She is currently under criminal indictment and has been banned from overseeing elections in her county this year."
Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean
I am looking forward to the hearings next week. The Jan. 6 committee has the testimony of a number of staffers who were in the room where it happened and their testimony could be as powerful as Dean's testimony.
https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/1533454492313722880
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/jan-6-committee-set-make-its-case-public-with-prime-time-hearing/
The Washington Post reported late last month that Hutchinson had told the committee that Meadows remarked to others that Trump indicated support for hanging his vice president after rioters who stormed the Capitol on that day started chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
“Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean,” Eisen added, referring to the former presidential counsel who accused President Richard M. Nixon of having direct involvement in the Watergate scandal to Senate investigators and federal prosecutors.
Hutchinson is likely to testify live before the committee, complemented by video footage of previous interviews before investigators, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The Jan. 6 committee does not need Meadow's testimony directly when his top aide and others can testify
I am also looking forward to Michael Luttig's testimony. Luttig is former judge and is well respected
“Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean,” Eisen added, referring to the former presidential counsel who accused President Richard M. Nixon of having direct involvement in the Watergate scandal to Senate investigators and federal prosecutors.
Hutchinson is likely to testify live before the committee, complemented by video footage of previous interviews before investigators, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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