Supreme Court takes nuclear waste case too wild to believe
(slate.com)
The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term. Although the court is obviously trying to duck controversial disputes before Election Day, it took up some strange and important appeals—including a case that poses the curious question: What if a federal court—in this case, yet again, the hyper-reactionary U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit—declared that the nation’s entire system of nuclear waste storage is actually illegal?
The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term. Although the court is obviously trying to duck controversial disputes before Election Day, it took up some strange and important appeals—including a case that poses the curious question: What if a federal court—in this case, yet again, the hyper-reactionary U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit—declared that the nation’s entire system of nuclear waste storage is actually illegal?