Justices Rule Against White House on Emissions
By DAVID STOUT
Published: April 2, 2007
WASHINGTON, April 2 — The Supreme Court ruled today, in what amounts to a rebuke of the Bush administration, that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from automobile emissions, and that it has shirked its duty in not doing so.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. The chief justice said his dissent “involves no judgment on whether global warming exists, what causes it, or the extent of the problem.” Rather, he wrote, the kind of dispute in this case is better resolved by Congress and the executive branch rather than the courts.
I think that the dissenters have a point in that Congress is the place to make the rules and do clarification on Acts. Then again, the point of having a Checks and Balances system is to make sure the other branches are doing their jobs right. (Well, it's much more complicated than that, but I think the majority ruling is still in the spirit of the checks.)
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