Author, Under The Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over; The Democracy Fix; The AOC Way. Sr Fellow, Brennan Center. Distinguished Visitor, Georgetown Law.Source
The Chamber of Commerce, which has labored mightily for decades to use the courts to deregulate the United States, just won another battle. Last week, the Supreme Court did its bidding by eviscerating the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Water Act to protect vast swaths of wetlands, taking another whack at the agency specifically and regulatory authority in general. Just last year, the Court decimated EPA’s power to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. Both cases were ostensibly based on the doctrine of “textualism,” which purports to follow the text...…The Chamber of Commerce, which has labored mightily for decades to use the courts to deregulate the United States, just won another battle. Last week, the Supreme Court did its bidding by eviscerating the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Water Act to protect vast swaths of wetlands, taking another whack at the agency specifically and regulatory authority in general. Just last year, the Court decimated EPA’s power to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. Both cases were ostensibly based on the doctrine of “textualism,” which purports to follow the text...WW…