I'm about to take some colleagues for a walk around some rare, ephemeral wetlands. It's sad that SCOTUS just ruled these wetlands do not deserve protection under federal law, but can be destroyed by private interests and developers for their short-term economic gain. This ruling will accelerate the destruction of the few remaining natural aquatic ecosystems in the US.
#water #scotus
It was absolutely not a question about what they deserved. That’s not a question for the Supreme Court to answer.
That’s an answer for the Legislative Branch to grapple with, and the SCOTUS merely respected the conclusion of the US democratic process, whether the particularly class of wetlands deserved protection or not.
The Court said this is not a question it is able to override, once the peoples’ representatives have spoken.
If the law needs to be changed, we need to elect better people to Congress.
We had a unanimous Supreme Court, composed of justices with approaches that come from many different angles, all agree that the agency was wrong.
In the face of that, what makes you think that the agency, with its own self interests, was right?
Where exactly do you think the Court got it wrong?
@volkris They imposed their (bad science) interpretation of the legislation in contradiction to the interpretation of the agencies whose job it is to implement the legislation.