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While the U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue conservative rulings, including repealing the right to abortion, this time it has put the brakes on President Joe Biden’s climate policy.
It is pointed out that the Supreme Court, which has been reorganized with absolute superiority in conservatives, is raising social conflicts by right-clicking on various issues.
This is Correspondent Lee Kyung-hee in Washington DC.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, which officially repealed the right to abortion after half a century, has put the brakes on the Joe Biden administration’s comprehensive greenhouse gas regulations.
The Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency did not have the power to broadly regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
While limiting carbon dioxide emissions may be a sensible solution to the current climate crisis, it is the message that such important decisions should be made by Congress or a body with a clear mandate from Congress, not the Environment Agency.
As a result, President Joe Biden’s goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 is inevitable.
It is evaluated that this ruling also reaffirmed the conservative colors of the Supreme Court, which began to emerge with the abolition of the right to abortion.
It is said that the role of the Chief Justice, who served as a counterweight depending on the case, has lost meaning as the three Supreme Court justices were replaced during the former President Trump’s era and reorganized into a 6 to 3 absolute advantage.
It is also pointed out that the Supreme Court is raising social conflicts for this reason.
On this day, the first black female Supreme Court Justice Kurtanji Jackson, a progressive black woman, started her tenure, but there is no change in the ideological distribution as it filled the position of former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who is also classified as a progressive.
The White House said the ruling was “regressive” and that “President Biden will not hesitate to use the powers granted him to respond to the climate crisis.”
He also foretold a full-fledged response to the ruling to abolish the right to abortion.
“I’ll have a meeting with the governors on Friday, and then I’ll announce the specifics of the response. Most importantly, we need to codify the ‘Roe v. Wade’ ruling granting the right to abortion.”
Meanwhile, after the Supreme Court’s ruling, there have been cases in which state courts have blocked the steps of Republican governors who tried to immediately enforce the abortion restriction law.
Following Texas, Louisiana and Utah, Florida courts have also ruled that restrictions on abortion must be withheld, saying it violates the Florida Constitution, which guarantees individual privacy.
This is Yonhap News TV, Lee Kyung-hee from Washington.
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