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SCOTUS decisions: Ketanji Brown Jackson accuses the court of corporate bias. In an extraordinary and unusual dissent on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a stark warning to the nation: The Supreme Court is favoring “moneyed interests” over all other parties, contorting the law to favor big business while locking the most vulnerable out of court. Jackson’s remarkable opinion was a protest against the court’s decision in Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, a case brought by the fossil fuel industry to weaken environmental protections. The Environmental Protection Agency allowed California to set higher emissions standards than the rest of the nation via a series of waivers; in response, gas producers sought to challenge those waivers. They did so despite the fact that Congress expressly allowed the EPA to grant those waivers in the Clean Air Act, and automakers—the actual parties facing California’s regulations—declined to challenge them. But gasoline companies did instead, arguing that they had constitutional standing to sue because they suffer economic harm when people buy less gas. This theory is, at best, dubious, particularly since these companies failed to prove that it was the EPA that caused them concrete harm. (There are many other factors pushing consumers toward more-efficient cars and electric vehicles.) Besides, the case appears to be on the brink of irrelevance: Donald Trump’s EPA seeks to repeal California’s waivers anyway, and
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