■ Successive remuneration judgments, conflict with the administration
Following the repeal of the decision to guarantee the right to abortion
Coal power generation sanctions reduction of the Environment Agency’s authority
Biden: ‘Decision that puts America back’
Senate to legislate abortion rights protection law
Response to the filibuster application exception
The U.S. Supreme Court this time has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has significantly reduced the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. This is a shockwave to President Joe Biden’s ‘zero carbon’ initiative, and has been holding back the Biden administration every day since the abolition of the ‘Raw v Wade’ ruling, which guarantees the right to abortion, after 49 years. President Biden immediately countered that it was a “destructive decision” and responded by saying that an exception to the Senate filibuster clause was needed to legislate the protection of abortion rights. .
According to the Washington Post (WP) and The New York Times (NYT), the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the United States, on June 30, at a hearing on the EPA’s greenhouse gas emission control rights, with 6 in favor to 3 against, “EPA has It does not have the authority to limit broad-based greenhouse gas emissions.” In the case of Republican-dominated states, such as West Virginia, in protest of the Barack Obama administration’s ‘Clean Power Plan (CPP)’ in 2015, the plaintiff prevailed. Decisions must be made by Congress or by an agency authorized by Congress.”
The ruling will inevitably disrupt President Biden’s climate crisis policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The WP said, “President Biden’s plan to operate the grid with ‘clean energy’ by 2035 has been shattered.” What’s even more worrisome is that there could be more Supreme Court rulings that put the brakes on the Biden administration’s policies in the future. Since Supreme Court justices serve for life, it is very unlikely that the current composition of six conservatives and three liberals will change for the time being unless the current Supreme Court justices retire or die. For this reason, it is expected that the conservative Supreme Court will issue conservative rulings one after another on key social issues such as contraception, same-sex marriage and the right to vote, as well as the right to abortion.
President Biden is strongly opposed to this. “This judgment is another devastating decision to push our country back,” Biden said in a statement. He also foretold measures against the abolition of the right to abortion. “The most important thing is that the Roe v Wade decision should be codified,” Biden said at a press conference shortly after the NATO summit. It has to be applied,” he said.
Reporter Hyuna Kim kimhaha@munhwa.com
