After the U.S. Supreme Court gave victory to constitutional originalists regarding energy policy, leftists in media and Twitter cried foul
The Court’s decision will limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate climate pollution, with Chief Justice John Roberts explaining that “Congress did not grant EPA in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan.”
The decision in the case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection AgencyThe June 30, 2013 edition of the Constitution was repealed. But it only took minutes for many on the left to erupt with tweets attacking the Court and the justices for opposing the Biden administration’s attempted EPA power grab.
For her part, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for the Supreme Court to be scrapped completely “for the sake of the planet” from her personal Twitter account. Rolling Stone complained that the Court’s decision gave another “victory” to conservatives. And Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson said that the country has entered “a full-blown Constitutional crisis” because of the Supreme Court’s actions.
Those were only a few of the most absurd responses to the Court’s ruling.
Journalist Dan RatherYou wrote: mock letter to the Supreme Court: “Dear Supreme Court, We are grateful for your kindness. Planet Earth.”
Dear Supreme Court,
Thanks for nothing.
– Planet Earth— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 30, 2022
Ocasio-Cortez called for the Supreme Court to be scrapped completely: “Catastrophic. Filibuster negotiations are not sufficient. We need to reform or do away with the whole thing, for the sake of the planet.”
Catastrophic. Filibuster carsveouts are not sufficient. For the good of our planet, we need to either reform the entire thing or get rid of it all. https://t.co/if8PIbfs42
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 30, 2022
The View cohost Joy Behar wrote in a tweet: “OMG, this Supreme Court is going to kill us.” She added soon after, “Why do they hate our children? Unbreathable air, more guns and even women who can take care of themselves. This is unacceptable. The six of them have to be stopped.”
We are going to be killed by this Supreme Court!
— Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) June 30, 2022
The New York Times’s so-called economist Paul Krugman piled on to the anti-Supreme Court train roughly an hour after the decision dropped: “Undoing Roe is awful. The existence of environmental regulation can be resisted by kneecapping. This Supreme Court has just come down on the side of civilizational collapse.”
It is terrible to ignore Roe. It is a grave offense to the environment to ignore it. The Supreme Court just sided with civilizational collapse.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 30, 2022
Rolling Stone published a story headlined “Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That the Planet Should Burn” just minutes after SCOTUSblogTwitterged the announcement West Virginia. “The court ruling marks another victory for a conservative effort to thwart climate action on a federal level,” the Rolling Stone According to the story. “Using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions was at best a backup plan, as Democrats had initially hoped to curb climate emissions via comprehensive climate legislation.”
Richardson tweeted to her over 300,000 followers: “The Supreme Court has gone rogue. There is a Constitutional crisis. Congress has to act. It is our duty to press Congress for action, as soon as it can. #TheMajority.”
Supreme Court is in crisis. There is a Constitutional crisis. Congress has to act. It is our duty to press Congress for action, as soon as it can. #TheMajority
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) June 30, 2022
Richardson didn’t stop there, responding to another user who claimed they were “having an anxiety attack” over the decision. “I thought hard before saying it,” Richardson said in a second tweet “I’m sorry to cause you distress, but the EPA ruling and the Courts [sic] willingness to review the independent state legislature doctrine are fundamental attacks on our government.”
Ex-President Barack Obama tweeted: “The 6-3 decision strikes a blow to the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions—paving the way to dismantle some of the most impactful provisions of the Clean Air Act and limit our ability to reduce carbon pollution.”
The 6-3 decision strikes a blow to the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions—paving the way to dismantle some of the most impactful provisions of the Clean Air Act and limit our ability to reduce carbon pollution.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 30, 2022
Conservatives are being attacked. Call ABC News (818-460-7777), CBS News (212-975-33247), and NBC News (212-664-6192) to demand that they tell the truth and condemn liberals who have taken control of a decision that gives authority over climate regulation back to Congress.
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