The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leased a plot of land to an oil and natural gas company while the judge was weakening the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency, report says
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This is a misunderstanding how the court works, though.
Alito wasn't at all weakening the powers of the EPA. The Court was pointing out that the EPA didn't have those powers in the first place.
It's up to Congress to delegate power; Alito doesn't have that authority.
It's a dramatic story based on confusing branches of the US government.
