Conservatives no more: Supreme Court's ruling on EPA's right to regulate greenhouse gases is a cappe
capper on a radical term
First, a textualist Supreme Court majority ignored the Second Amendment clause attaching gun rights to a well regulated Militia. Cherry-picking history to claim that carrying a weapon has always been protected, the conservatives killed a century-old New York statute regulating the concealed carry of firearms and elevated a newly contrived individual right to self-defense that appears nowhere in the Constitution.
Then the majority, saying womens right to bodily autonomy appears nowhere in the Constitution, empowered states to bar women from terminating pregnancies starting at the moment of conception, again embracing a reading of Americas past thats not only wrong, but of dubious relevance.
The logical acrobatics make the head hurt. The Constitutions words matter, except when they dont. History and precedent are controlling, except when theyre not.
Now add this to the pile of hypocrisies: The words in laws passed by Congress matter, except when they dont. So say six justices in asserting that the Environmental Protection Agency has no authority to issue generation shifting regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions at power plants to combat a gargantuan problem called climate change.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-conservatives-no-more-supreme-080000441.html