Discussion: Roberts Upholds Rule Targeting Air Pollution In Victory For Obama Admin

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I wonder if Roberts, in an effort to avoid 4-4 ties, will lean more progressive. For the good of the Institution.

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Or maybe he just knows that the US electorate does not need mercury to make it ‘mad as a hatter’…

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…and Constitution, as well as burnishing his legacy.

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In 3, 2, 1… activist unelected SC Justice strikes again…

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He has children, they were very young when he was elevated to the Supreme Court.

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This is, although the story does not say it, Roberts acting as Circuit Justice. It is not a decision of the whole court.

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Josh and Team TPM - let’s get the headlines right. Chief Justice Roberts didn’t do ANYTHING. The Court declined to step in. The headlines is inapt. Sorry, but as a lawyer this sort of thing annoys me, and it has nothing to do with the merits of the case or how one may feel about CJ Roberts.

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TPM headlines are routinely misleading.

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The framers LOVED mercury. They put it in everything – on their breakfast cereal, in eggs, used it as a poultice for minor scrapes and burns. This shit never woulda flown if Scalia had still been around to reinforce an originalist reading of the Constitution.

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With Scalia gone, I’m already breathing easier.

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Its costs? Who gives a fuck how much it will cost? No one wants to be breathing mercury.

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or maybe he will just grudgingly do his job…

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LOL!

but, sadly quite true… Mercury probably would have killed Lincoln before Booth got to him if someone hadn’t intervened.

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OK, let’s be honest and do a rewrite…

“the EPA should have considered the costs and benefits before imposing limits on corporate profits”

…the poison was inconsequential.

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Well, he did do something, just not what the headlines suggest. He, in his capacity as Circuit Justice, denied a request to stay the EPA regulations. It wasn’t a decision on the merits though, and it remains to be seen how things will play out along the way.

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But, it is a victory for the EPA and Obama, which is the point the OP was making about today being a good day.