<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Obama Supreme Court pick has small but solid record on environmental rulings]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by sbhecht http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/ Tue, 26 May 2009 22:27:00 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/1 Thanks for the informative post.  My co-blogger Jonathan Zasloff at Legal Planet has noted that Sotomayor is on the appellate panel that has failed, a full three years after oral argument before the Second Circuit, to issue any decision on a very important climate change-related issue: whether states' nuisance case against coal-fired power plants was properly dismissed by a federal district court as a non-justiciable "political question."  He also points out that Sotomayor's oral argument questioning on this case was thoughtful and incisive:

http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-environmental-argument-against-sotomayor-sort-of/

]]> Thanks for the informative post.  My co-blogger Jonathan Zasloff at Legal Planet has noted that Sotomayor is on the appellate panel that has failed, a full three years after oral argument before the Second Circuit, to issue any decision on a very important climate change-related issue: whether states' nuisance case against coal-fired power plants was properly dismissed by a federal district court as a non-justiciable "political question."  He also points out that Sotomayor's oral argument questioning on this case was thoughtful and incisive:

http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-environmental-argument-against-sotomayor-sort-of/

]]> Comment #2 by kv1009 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/ Wed, 27 May 2009 00:02:13 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/2 Kavi

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]]> Comment #3 by Catmoves http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:19:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-26-obama-supreme-court-pick/3 I sincerely hope this a misprint: "Latin American...." I hope she is an American, even born in the USA. 

But I will never favor her being seated on the court, because this lady wants to take our guns away from us. And I have serious doubts about her really serving our conservationist aims. 

]]> I sincerely hope this a misprint: "Latin American...." I hope she is an American, even born in the USA. 

But I will never favor her being seated on the court, because this lady wants to take our guns away from us. And I have serious doubts about her really serving our conservationist aims. 

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