On Wednesday, a federal court smacked down a Biden administration rule that required states and cities to set transportation climate targets. Anyone who read the Constitution could have told them that the federal government has no authority over states for anything that isn’t found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, or a power the states gave to the federal government via a ratified amendment.
Judge James Hendrix, a Trump appointee, sided with the Republican-led states that sued over the rule, saying the Biden administration lacked authority to order them to set the targets.
Hendrix argued that the administration had no legal authority to use environmental benchmarks in state assessments of highway “performance.”
How much do you want to bet that the Biden administration continues to push for it against the court ruling? They have already gone so far as to ignore a Supreme Court ruling against student loan debt forgiveness, so why not this too?
The judge wrote that the legislation that states that the “performance of the Interstate/National Highway Systems” refers to “the infrastructure’s effectiveness in facilitating travel, commerce, and national defense—not environmental outputs of vehicles using the systems.”
The Federal Highway Administration’s order obliged state and municipal transportation authorities to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and report on their progress. It also established a nationwide framework for calculating and reporting transportation-related emissions.
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A representative for the Highway Administration, which is part of the Transportation Department, said that the agency was analyzing the decision and determining the next steps. The spokeswoman emphasized the administration’s commitment to combating climate change.
In other words, the lawyers in the department are trying to come up with ways to circumvent the constitution, states’ rights, and the judge’s ruling.
Republican lawmakers celebrated the court’s ruling.
“This was a clear case of blatant overreach by the Biden Administration from the beginning, and we commend the Court for its ruling,” Reps. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) stated in a joint statement.
They referred to the measure as an “unlawful attempt to circumvent Congress and force this one-size-fits-all burden upon every state and community across the country.”
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