The pipeline

The debt ceiling deal bulldozes a controversial pipeline's path through the courts

The NPR article above gives more details about this dirty deal between Biden and Manchin and the fossil fuel industry, including stuff that is just obscene ...

[...] When Manchin brokered the 2022 deal with the White House, his office said it planned to "give the D.C. Circuit jurisdiction over any further litigation," rather than the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., where judges have repeatedly ruled against the pipeline.

The debt ceiling deal would fulfill that plan. The act states, "no court shall have jurisdiction to review any action taken by the Secretary of the Army, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior," or any state agency, if the action authorizes or permits building and operating the pipeline at full capacity.

The legislation also says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit "shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over any claim alleging the invalidity of this section or that an action is beyond the scope of authority conferred by this section." .....

How can the president of a party that is pledged to environmental protection and the rule of law make this kind of deal? Forget for a moment about this being immoral, how can this even be legal?

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