Supreme Court: Still slightly rational


The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the EPA can regulate CO2 emissions, and the states have standing to make it act.

Once again, Justice Kennedy parts company with his hard right brethren. It would have been mightily entertaining to watch the internal debate about this one, assuming these people even talk to each other anymore. It seems that every time the right seems on the verge of pushing this country's legal system permanently into the dark ages, one Justice gets repelled and opts for near sanity. The string is running out though. If Bush gets another appointment, and Joe Lieberman lets him through, then we're in for a rough ride.

Maybe Justice Kennedy saw An Inconvenient Truth and decided that he'd rather his grandchildren live in a decent world than uphold the right of George Bush to be an idiot.
Posted: Monday - April 02, 2007 at 08:19 PM          

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