11 avril<\/a>. Ce n’est pas tant le cas lui-m\u00eame, assez technique mais n\u00e9anmoins en rapport avec l’application de lois concernant la pollution, ni la fa\u00e7on dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9battu (il n’est pas r\u00e9gl\u00e9), que le langage employ\u00e9 par le Justice John Paul Stevens, pr\u00e9sentant l’argumentation au nom de la majorit\u00e9 de la Cour (5 voix contre 4) et employant l’argument du fait jug\u00e9 extr\u00eamement appropri\u00e9 que l’une des parties (l’Etat du Massachussets) est un \u00e9tat souverain. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tQuelques extraits de la chronique de Kilpatrick. (NDLR : Appomatox est la bourgade o\u00f9 le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Ulysses S. Grant, chef des arm\u00e9es f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9es, re\u00e7ut la capitulation de son ancien sup\u00e9rieur dans l’arm\u00e9e des USA, le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Robert E. Lee, chef des arm\u00e9es conf\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9es, en avril 1865, mettant ainsi fin \u00e0 la Guerre de s\u00e9cession, ou Civil War<\/em>, qui portait notamment mais essentiellement sur le droit des Etats \u00e0 faire s\u00e9cession, impliquant la question de la souverainet\u00e9 des Etats de l’Union.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIt is of considerable relevance, wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, that the party seeking review here is a sovereign state and not a private individual.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Supreme Court’s most senior member was writing for the majority on April 2 in the case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency . He was invoking a doctrine as old as the Republic a doctrine embedded in the Constitution’s 10th Amendment. The states may not have much of their original sovereignty left, but even their residual quasi-sovereign powers gained the court’s respect.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbChief Justice Roberts, in response, lectured his most senior colleague on the merits of judicial restraint. Roberts did not exactly scoff at old doctrines of state sovereignty or quasi-sovereignty. Even so, he concluded that in the case at hand, Massachusetts has no sovereign rights or even quasi-sovereign rights the EPA is bound to respect. That theory has no basis in our jurisprudence. The state has neither the duty nor the power to enforce the rights of its citizens in relation to the federal government. Goodnight from Appomattox.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbIt was a splendid breaking of lances between Stevens and Roberts, but it settled nothing. On remand, the EPA presumably will explain patiently that an effective response to global warming remains to be devised. Meanwhile, old-fashioned states-righters may express their thanks to Justice Stevens. On April 2 he gave them one brief shining moment to recall their Camelot.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 14 avril 2007 \u00e0 17H28<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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