Chuck Schumer: Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling is MAGA run wild

If you're looking for logic in a political party, don't look at Democrats. Democrats are the anti-logic party in DC. Sen. Chuck Schumer's statements after today's Sackett v. EPA is proof that Democrats don't trust in things like truth, logic and gravitas.

Schumer said "This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country's environmental laws. Make no mistake – this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands." If MAGA justices are the problem, how is it that the 2 Obama-appointed justices Kagan and Sotomayor) and the Biden-appointed justice (Ketanjee Brown-Jackson) aren't guilty of polluting water and the "destruction of wetlands", too? All 9 justices voted that the EPA had overstepped its authorities, though the 3 Obama-Biden justices voted against making the ruling a precedent.

The Supreme Court "issued an opinion that narrowed the EPA's broad definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS). The court said the federal government must define WOTUS as a water source with a 'continuous surface connection' to major bodies of water."

Jutice Alito's majority opinion stated "The EPA ordered the Sacketts to restore the site, threatening penalties of over $40,000 per day. The EPA classified the wetlands on the Sacketts’ lot as 'waters of the United States' because they were near a ditch that fed into a creek, which fed into Priest Lake, a navigable, intrastate lake. The Sacketts sued, alleging that their property was not 'waters of the United States.'"

The EPA said that a ditch that fed into a creek that fed into Priest Lake is part of the "waters of the US. That's as contorted (and tortured) of logic as I've seen in decades. This interview let the veil slip:

Coral Davenport of the NYTimes said "farmers, real estate developers, golf course developers, not surprisingly former Pres. Trump because they really did get in the way of what a lot of people could do with their land. How dare those landowners use their land for things that they want. How dare they buy land to build homes or golf courses. Don't these people know that all land is meant to be used for the greater good?

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