Congress; Do Your Job

For John, BLUF:  The most important decision in this SCOTUS Term is with regard to the Enviornmental Protection Agency and the broad sweep of authority it has given itself.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Justices Send a Message to Congress

Here is the sub-headline:

The EPA case doesn’t preclude climate rules.  It require lawmakers to enact them.

From The Wall Street Journal, by Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel, 30 June 2022, 6:41 pm ET.

Here is the lede plus one:

It’s tempting to view Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate authority as a missile aimed solely at the bureaucratic swamp.  It’s just as much a swipe at that bureaucracy’s enabler:  the feckless U.S. Congress.

Sweep away the opinion’s numbing technical descriptions, and the ruling is a joy to read.  The six conservatives on the court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, have officially declared the “major questions doctrine”—a concept that has appeared in a handful of past court decisions—to be a living, breathing principle.  The federal bureaucracy is no longer allowed to impose programs of major “economic and political significance” on the country absent “clear congressional authorization."  Hallelujah.

This points directly to Represenative Lori Trahan and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.  The US Supreme Court is asking them to assume their responsibilities as our elected legislators.

But, in the mean time, we are losing our Democracy and sliding toward a Chinese style democratic centralism, a nation run under the principles of the Chinese "Social Credit" System.  We, the voters, need to hold our legislators accountabe, including for allowing Federal Three Letter Agencies to usurp their legislative responsibilities.  Government Agencies should not be providing the direction that should come from debated and voted legislation.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff