Supreme Court Re-Ducks

Submitted by Derek Brockbank on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:19am.

 
From the Boston Globe:

A Duck Hunt for Global Warming
By Derrick Jackson

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia needs to go duck hunting. It is the only way for him to understand global warming.

He made that clear in oral arguments this past week on whether states can sue the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency's refusal - with the backing of the White House and the auto industry - to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gases of global warming. Just moments after James Milkey, Massachusetts assistant attorney general, opened his statement on how the state "will be hit particularly hard" by rising oceans, Scalia pounced on him with: "I thought that the standing requires imminent harm. If you haven't been harmed already, you have to show the harm is imminent. Is this harm imminent?"

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