If you want to feel really cynical about the Supreme Court read Alito’s opinion in Sackett.
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the court is remarkably brazen about this approach—so brazen that Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored a sharp opinion accusing him of failing to “stick to the text.” Alito began with a long history of the Supreme Court’s struggles to identify the “outer boundaries” of the Clean Water Act, as if to explain why the time had come for the court to give up wrestling with the text and just impose whatever standard it prefers.
Moreover, many wetlands have a periodic connection to bigger nearby waters that ebbs and flows with seasons, rainfall, and other natural factors. Some maintain a continuous connection underground while appearing to be disconnected on the surface. For nearly 50 years, the EPA has shielded these areas from destruction. Now they are in open season for developers, because they lack a “continuous surface connection” to neighboring waters.
, Kagan described the court’s “appointment of itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.” Assuming that unearned role, the majority has once again chosen “to cabin the anti-pollution actions Congress thought appropriate.”
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