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In his ruling, Judge Brian Morris said “the Trump administration completely disregarded the climate effects of building the Keystone pipeline,” according to Vermont law professor Pat Parenteau.
“The Trump administration dismissed, with barely a paragraph in the decision document they issued, the whole idea that the pipeline would be contributing to climate change and the judge said that's not good enough,” Parenteau explains. “[He said], ‘You really do have to take into account the growing body of science that we all know and you have to explain why it makes sense, given that, to authorize yet another major piece of fossil fuel infrastructure that will take 40 years to pay off.’”
Morris is a former justice on the Montana Supreme Court and is considered a “very moderate judge,” Parenteau adds. “He’s hardly a radical environmentalist. There are some judges on the federal bench who are more pro-environment ..., but Judge Morris isn’t in that same category.”
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Monday December 17 2018, @08:51AM (4 children)
I also appreciate the concern for the environment, but, isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws? Is it the body of laws so big and confusing that a judge can rule whatever because something to support him will crop up? Very Italian of you.
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(Score: 2) by Shimitar on Monday December 17 2018, @09:32AM (1 child)
The US system is quite different than the Italian system.
It seems "laws" are less important in the US than in any non-anglo system.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @07:08PM
Since the US system was built to avoid the shortcomings of the british magistrate system and the rather abusive european colonial judiciaries that tended to make arbitrary judgements thanks to collusion between the state, the judges, and the police.
America has come full circle.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @07:22PM
Yup. That also means a judge can require anyone to make their case based on those laws, so the judge can actually judge merits of the case. If you try to circumvent any law by pretending it doesn't exist, a judge is perfectly qualified to send you back home to do your homework properly.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 17 2018, @07:23PM
I also appreciate the concern for the environment, but, isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws?
The law requires a scientifically based environmental impact analysis.
Pretending that global warming is a Chinese hoax does not meet that standard.
The judge ruled appropriately.