more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. let s start with cnn s jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restricting the epa s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. and at the same time the supreme court here is sending a signal that for big issues, big decisions from the epa and even other agencies, those big issues and decisions could eventually be struck down by this court if they weren t explicitly written out by congress as agencies having the power to do. so this is what the chief justice john roberts wrote in his opinion saying it is not plausible that congress gave epa the author
began. and where the conservative majority, super majority, frankly, on this court, is taking us. we all know our country has three branches of government. each branch is supposed to restrain the others from exercising too much power their checks and balances. that is actually how all this is supposed to work, but the supreme court is acting as if it has no restraints and as if it is the sole decider with its decision in west virginia versus , which on thursday, limited the epa s ability of regulating emissions that cause climate change. as justice elena kagan s dissent, the court does not know how to address climate change, but the quarter points itself, instead of congress or the expert agency, as a decision-maker on climate policy. i cannot think of many things more frightening. unquote. also can t think of anything more frightening than a rogue supreme court whose ruling has run roughshod over the role of congress, the executive branch, prior to court precedents. and, o
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