Day By Day

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Now This is Refreshing -- A Judge Who Recognizes Congressional Authority

AP reports:
NEW YORK -- A federal judge expressed reluctance about beginning judicial oversight of pollution issues that affect global warming as she heard arguments Friday in a complaint brought by eight states against some of the nation's largest power companies.

"Why should I do something that Congress and the president have decided they don't want to do as a matter of policy?" Judge Loretta Preska asked lawyers for the states.
Read it here.

Now if we could get every judge to ask questions like that....

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