BREAKING: SCOTUS unanimously yanks chain on EPA in Sackett

[SVPete]

BREAKING: SCOTUS unanimously yanks chain on EPA in Sackett

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/05/25/boom-scotus-unanimously-yanks-chain-on-epa-in-waters-of-the-us-case-n553404

Anyone want to take bets on the life expectancy of the Chevron doctrine after today’s unanimous decision on Sackett v EPA? The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the EPA had grossly overstepped its congressional mandate in defining “Waters of the United States,” vastly limiting its authority to declare jurisdiction over what it claims to be “wetlands” on private property.

It’s the second such loss in as many years for the EPA’s attempt to aggrandize its jurisdiction, CBS News notes:

In an opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito in the case known as Sackett v. EPA, the high court found that the agency’s interpretation of the wetlands covered under the Clean Water Act is “inconsistent” with the law’s text and structure, and the law extends only to “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies of water that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right.”

Five justices joined the majority opinion by Alito, while the remaining four — Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — concurred in the judgment.

The decision from the conservative court is the latest to target the authority of the EPA to police pollution. On the final day of its term last year, the high court limited the agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to efforts to combat climate change.

I love the whiny tone of SeeBS' article! May the bureaucrats' snout get even more smacks!

The "Chevron doctrine" was a principle in which courts deferred to regulatory agencies' interpretations of their authority and jurisdiction. Bureaucratic tyranny was predictable and ensued, and this and last year's power plants rulings will at least put limits on the "Chevron doctrine", and threaten to end it.

[DefiantSix]

...The "Chevron doctrine" was a principle in which courts deferred to regulatory agencies' interpretations of their authority and jurisdiction. Bureaucratic tyranny was predictable and ensued, and this and last year's power plants rulings will at least put limits on the "Chevron doctrine", and threaten to end it.

Looking forward to watching the BATF try to squirm out from under this ruling, as well. 

[Eupher]

As I mentioned on another thread, the amazing thing is this was a UNANIMOUS decision by all 9 justices. Even the new kid on the block, who doesn't know what a woman is, was somehow convinced that Congress' systematic and continuous failure to write legislation that was sufficiently detailed to prevent the need for the "Chevron doctrine" (the majority opinion cheerfully written by leftist John Paul Stevens decades ago) in the first place was not a license for EPA to get stupid.