"We've been confident throughout this case that we would get to trial, and I believe we will get to trial," she said. Trump administration tries to block youth lawsuit claiming ‘there is no constitutional right to a stable climate system’Email already exists. to your comment.

Right now, members of Congress are considering 11 legislative measures that would on some level reign in the National Security Agency. "We have overcome everything the government has thrown at us. Government powers in a public health emergency are quite expansive. This is exactly the kind of voice needed to begin the process to make this finally happen.

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"The Supreme Court's three-page order in November, which sent the case back to the 9th Circuit, noted the government's assertion that the "suit is based on an assortment of unprecedented legal theories, such as a substantive due process right to certain climate conditions, and an equal protection right to live in the same climate as enjoyed by prior generations.


"You may be right. Now you see the game that courts and industry are playing together. will be published daily in dedicated articles. "Even before Tuesday, lawyers in two administrations had made similar arguments in lower courts. "It is a case that is a dagger at the separation of powers," Jeffrey Bossert Clark, an assistant attorney general for the Mr Clark reiterated the arguments that the government has long made in the case: that the lawsuit amounts to an "end run" around the authorities of But Julia Olson, the attorney for the plaintiffs and executive director of Our Children's Trust, insisted that her clients - a majority of whom are now old enough to vote - had been deprived of their fundamental rights as a result of government policies that fuel global warming.The group's goal is to compel the government to scale back its support for "When our great-grandchildren look back on the 21st century, they will see that government-sanctioned climate destruction was the constitutional issue of this century," Ms Olson said. Sensenbrenner says that the way the NSA has interpreted the Patriot Act was never envisaged when it was passed.But what Sensenbrenner now claims is necessary is for the NSA to be blocked from spying on Americans, and accessing phone and email records without a warrant and without some legal justification.Congressman Sensenbrenner and the rest of Congress had their chance to move exactly that kind of control forward.The Republican Congressman from Michigan, Justin Amash authored an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill just weeks ago.It was called the Amash/Conyers Amendment, also called the Liberty Amendment and it attempted to ban the NSA from collecting the anonymous telephone and email records of Americans who are not under investigation for any crime.Amash argues that the NSA is violating the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.Both Republicans and Democrats got behind the Amash amendment but others did not and the amendment failed by a narrow margin of 217-205.So you might ask…why didn’t more members of Congress get behind this amendment?

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