Newsweek has a long editorial by Jonathan Tobin discussing the implications of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency.
He puts it into the context of stopping the power grab by the unelected administrative state that has been overstepping the law. Read the whole thing:
If the USA is not to sink into a civil war, the first step might be to actually allow input by it's citizens instead of special interest groups who have an agenda.
This means stopping courts (as in RvW) and the bureaucrats (in the latest EPA expansion by unelected bureaucrats) from making laws without the messy input of democratic discussion and input.
Yes, there is a need for expertise (which is why the US is a republic, like ancient Rome (which lasted 500 years) and not a democracy like Athens, where demagogues took it over by manipulating public opinion within a century).
What is interesting in the Newsweek editorial is why it was opposed by some justices in the SC and of course most of the MSM: the idea that climate change is too important to be left to the voter.
...With respect to the EPA, the Left is fully convinced that the urgency of climate change means that the Constitution and democracy can be thrown out the window.
As even Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent after a lengthy dissertation on the horrors of global warming and the theories about it leading to planetary doom, "Whatever else this court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change." She's right about that, but the Supreme Court's purpose isn't to make or approve environmental policy.
italics mine.
Hmm... this argument sounds more like Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, or other right wing conspiracy nuts who see both covid and Climate change as either hoaxes or as real problems that are being exaggerated so the New World Order can take over....
As in the Great Reset... link2.
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