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US supreme court: the key issues affected by death of Justice Scalia
2016-02-14 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday, at the age of 79, created an opening on the US supreme court. Paying tribute to Scalia, President Obama said he would nominate a successor. In the Senate and on the campaign trail, however, Republicans said they would not cooperate, even to the extent of scheduling a nomination hearing in the upper house they control, at any point in the presidents final year in office. We could be in for a year or more with only eight justices on the supreme court,...
Obama Administration's "Clean Power Plan" dealt a setback by the Supreme Court
2016-02-14 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: The Obama administrations Clean Power Plan suffered a setback on Tuesday when the Supreme Court granted a stay to the program. In a 5-4 decision, the court sided in favor of petitioning states, utilities and coal companies that claimed that the federal government was overreaching its powers when it attempted to establish a national plan to move away from fossil-fuel based power. Requests for the Supreme Court to impose the stay were submitted in January after an appeals court ruled that the plan...
Scalias passing starts a court fight for the ages
2016-02-14 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In most presidential elections, Supreme Court nominations are a major issue for elites and a substantial concern for significant parts of the conservative movement. Other voters usually see the future makeup of the court as a side matter, or not essential to their decisions at all. Justice Antonin Scalias death on Saturday will change this. The issue of conservative judicial activism had already begun to take hold among liberals because of a series of fiercely ideological and precedent-shattering...
Scalia's death could change court on abortion, race, climate
2016-02-14 03:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Justice Antonin Scalia's death could change the course of history on the contentious social and legal issues pending before the Supreme Court this term, especially in closely divided cases where he was expected to serve as a lynchpin of a conservative majority. In cases where the eight remaining justices are evenly divided, appeals court rulings would be left to stand, but no precedent would be set for future cases. The justices could also hold cases and leave stays of lower court rulings in place,...
US Supreme Court temporarily halts EPA guidelines for carbon emissions
2016-02-13 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gosport Times: A Supreme Court ruling this week could make it harder for the U.S.to honor commitments it made at climate talks in Paris. Coal-producing West Virginia is one of 29 states and state agencies challenging Obama's plan. The Supreme Court hits the brakes on the heart of President Obama's push to fight global warming. The Court's recent decisions had hinted that the Clean Power Plan might meet with disfavor among the justices. "We continue to believe that the Clean Power Plan could negatively impact...
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