Thread by @ggreeneva

[Senator Joe MANCHIN:]
(*refuses to push utilities to abandon fossil fuels*)

[ME:]
“Okay, then Biden should use the Clean Air Act to regulate fossil fuels out of the market.”

[SCOTUS:]
(*ahem*)

[ME:]
“… Well, sh*t.”

https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1454165141935767565

I expected shenanigans from SCOTUS, because Republicans have packed the Court. But I didn’t expect shenanigans before Biden even gets to #COP26.

[SCOTUS, in a possible future holding:]
“On whatever policy the federal government sets regarding carbon, Congress must take the lead.”

[Senator Joe MANCHIN:]
(*grins widely aboard yacht*)

[ME:]
(*screams until hoarse*)

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1454166118415978505

I’m not gonna be alive to see it, but is this going to be one of those things like slavery — where Americans of a future age try to excuse our generations’ permanent moral stain by saying “well, you see, they didn’t know better by the standards of the time?”

“Sure, they roasted the planet, but you have to judge them by the standards of the time.” Except that will be bullsh*t — because we knew we were roasting the planet, and millions upon millions upon millions of us have been calling upon humanity to _not do that_.

Very much this energy, in other words:

[future STUDENT:]
“Why did America burn fossil fuels when Americans knew doing it could render much of the Indian subcontinent, home to nearly 2 billion people, uninhabitable?”

[future CONSERVATIVE:]
“Look, life is complicated.”

https://twitter.com/davidastinwalsh/status/1453873899008110620

This is right.

One can make all sorts of innocuous explanations here — but given that the Court had the freedom to do this in a multitude of ways that looked less political, I have a hard time crediting such excuses.

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1454190784052355078