NEW: The Supreme Court VACATES the 4th Circuit's stay against [Joe Manchin's] Pipeline

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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC

NEW: The Supreme Court VACATES the 4th Circuit's stay against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, thereby allowing construction to continue. No noted dissents.

Here's a link: https://supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/072723zr_j4ek.pdf

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[orthoclad]

1. The people have been fighting this for years,

with the pipeline company losing in court after court. The pipeline has an appalling record of hundreds of permit vioations during construction. Landowners in VA and WV have been abused and had their peace and property taken from them.

The only way this monstrosity succeeded was for Joe Manchin to hold the whole economy hostage in the debt ceiling crisis.

[diva77]

2. K&R for exposure. Devastating decision. Cannot understand lack of dissents either.

[orthoclad]

3. How many justices, or which justice(s),

wrote this ordure? I see no sig at the link above. Could this have been just one justice?

[diva77]

4. I find legalese difficult to read. The order only mentions the Chief Justice

but I have no idea whether or not he wrote the order. Maybe one of our brilliant DU legal minds can chime in...

[orthoclad]

5. Was the Court conveniently on vacation,

so that only one of the reich-wingers got to handle the case?

Timng is everything.