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Opening the Floodgates: The Roberts Court's Decision in Rapanos v. United States Spells Trouble for the Future of the Waters of the United States

B. R. Currie

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Court and implications of Rapanos decision).For more than three decades, these [CWA] federal regulations on wetlands and streams had stood, through Republican and Democratic administrations and through GOP-and Democratic-controlled Congresses.Yet, with one extra vote, the Roberts court would have rewritten the scope of the Clean Water Act in its first termnot the act of a modest Supreme Court.

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Court and implications of Rapanos decision).For more than three decades, these [CWA] federal regulations on wetlands and streams had stood, through Republican and Democratic administrations and through GOP-and Democratic-controlled Congresses.Yet, with one extra vote, the Roberts court would have rewritten the scope of the Clean Water Act in its first termnot the act of a modest Supreme Court.

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Court and implications of Rapanos decision).For more than three decades, these [CWA] federal regulations on wetlands and streams had stood, through Republican and Democratic administrations and through GOP-and Democratic-controlled Congresses.Yet, with one extra vote, the Roberts court would have rewritten the scope of the Clean Water Act in its first termnot the act of a modest Supreme Court.

Key concepts: Uniform Code of Military Justice, Law, Political science, Court decision, History of the United States, Certiorari, Original jurisdiction, Jurisdiction

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