Think things are shitty?
They're gonna get a lot shittier soon, literally, thanks to a lawsuit by liberal San Francisco and the right wing SCOTUS, making it harder to regulate and limit the pollution and raw sewage dumped into our bays and oceans.
@MikeDunnAuthor It's not a right-wing SCOTUS but rather one that respects the laws passed by Congress regardless of political leanings.
So we elected congresspeople that passed certain legislation that might not have been for the best. Fine, let's dump them and elect better representatives who won't do that, who will fix the laws.
But that's not up to the court. That's up to us.
@MikeDunnAuthor No, it's the exact opposite.
The CWA didn't authorize what the EPA was doing, and maybe it should! But it didn't. The people we elected decided not to cover that. The court respected the decision of the people that we elected.
The court didn't eviscerate the clean water act, it emphasized the clean water act, what it said and what it didn't say.
In the future maybe we'll elect people that will change the CWA, and at that point we really need the court to continue to do what it just did and emphasize what the law says.
@volkris and, in so doing, made it easier for all states to ignore the EPA in the future, making EPA insignificant, or impotent; that is to say, eviscerated
@MikeDunnAuthor again, that's the opposite of what the Court did.
The Court shored up the EPA giving its orders more teeth by emphasizing the legal basis for its actions.
The EPA isn't eviscerated by this ruling; it's buttressed and amplified through legal mandate.
@volkris the Court ruled to eviscerate the clean water act and the court is right wing