How the US supreme court and an #Idaho couple upended wetlands protection | US news | The Guardian

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> Experts fear half of the 290m #wetland acres have lost federal protection and could be at risk from developers

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@BigAngBlack what this misses is that the Supreme Court merely recognized the laws written by Congress.

The court didn't scale anything down. Congress had the authority and the court just pointed that out.

If Congress wants to expand administrative authority it can, it can do it today. That our representatives never did that sets the boundaries.

It's not the court narrowing protections. It's Congress declining to give the president very extensive control over so much of US territory.

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