Fred Upton, the newly-named chairman of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, was once a moderate Republican on climate issues. He supported measures to reduce the risk of global warming. But after receiving a $20,000 donation from the climate-change-denying-fossil-fuel-billionaire Koch brothers, Upton now wants to strip the EPA of its Supreme Court-mandated power to regulateContinue reading “Michigan Congressman attacks EPA, ignores constituents”
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The Supreme Court Justice/Hiker
Tough Timothy Egan of The New York Times reveals what the right-wing D.C. establishment really thinks of retiring Chief Justice David Souter…that he's weird because he likes to walk in the mountains. Souter’s been painted as a strange, little man stranded in the wrong century…. At his 200-year-old family farmhouse — badly in need ofContinue reading “The Supreme Court Justice/Hiker”
Chief Justice Roberts Loses a Big One
The Supreme Court is not just the highest court in the land, it is also the forum in which our nation’s most pressing issues are debated most rigorously, with precedents, transcripts, questions, and arguments both oral and written. Congressional hearings, campaign speeches, press conferences and the like all have their time and place, but forContinue reading “Chief Justice Roberts Loses a Big One”
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