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… A Significant Supreme Court Decision [UARG v EPA] …

Posted by paulfromwloh on Sunday,June 29th,2014

.. well , whatdoes it mean ? ..

.. well , the government does still get to regulate greenhouse gasses . That will be the case as long as the current lineup of the Supreme Court remains unchanges. Once a change comes (hopefully , for the better) , then the EPA can be forces to retreat …

.. [h/t — m.NationalReview(BenchMemos)]..
.. [link] to the blog post ..

.. the decision basically says that the agency (in this case , the EPA) will be granted a certain amount of latitude . That latitude , known in the trade as “Chevron Deference,” gives an agency the ability to implement (within reason) the law and intent of a statute . However , what I think the liberals do not understand with this decision is that UARG limits that deference to a clear point , within reason . It cannot be stretched , as Chief Justice Rehnquist once put it , beyond the limits of reason with the strands of a rubber bands as to be unrecognizable …

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