Is anyone seeing a pattern? ======= The Environmental Protection Agency has been waging a regulatory war on Texas—and losing in the federal courts. On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down another misguided EPA rule. Enacted in August 2011, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was supposed to reduce air pollution emitted in one state and carried downwind to... Read more
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EPA Smack-Down Number Six
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US Constitution, US CourtsConsumer Bureau Brushback
June 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, US Constitution, US CourtsAre you serious? OK then,… 9-0 ======== Washington’s regulators have great power, and in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by Dodd-Frank as an independent agency, they also have no serious Congressional check. So three cheers for a recent Supreme Court decision reining in regulatory discretion that has zero foundation in law. And by the way, the... Read more
Targeting John Roberts
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, The Left, US ConstitutionYou can tell the Supreme Court is getting closer to its historic ObamaCare ruling because the left is making one last attempt to intimidate the Justices. The latest effort includes taunting Chief Justice John Roberts that if the Court overturns any of the law, he’ll forever be defined as a partisan “activist.” Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy recently took the extraordinary... Read more
Assailing the Supreme Court – WSJ.com
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, ObamaCare, The Left, US ConstitutionIts not about “American values…”, but about “Liberals’ values (as in “Left”) ====== After last week’s Supreme Court argument on ObamaCare, the political left seems to be suffering a nervous breakdown. Only a week ago, the liberal consensus was that the federal mandate to buy insurance couldn’t possibly be overturned. Now as panic sets in, the left has taken to mau-mauing the... Read more
Its The Integrity, Stupid
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionMcIntosh – taking it back! ======== An old acquaintance of mine, a passionate progressive, gave away the game in a recent conversation when he said, contemptuously, “Your people (by which he meant the Tea Party) are idiots for fetishizing the Constitution. Everybody knows that it’s just an artifact.” A stunning proposition and stated with such refreshing candor. Does the Constitution still matter?... Read more
