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[BoogieWoogie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.

A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock reservation, which were hastily issued by the Trump administration just days after the inauguration, violated the law in certain critical respects.

http://standwithstandingrock.net/vi...approval-dakota-access-pipeline-violated-law/

 

[Snowybreak]

NOICE

 

[orochi91]

Ayyy~~~

That's a good start.

 

[Fast Forward]

Once again the courts save the day.

As bad Trump has been (and he has), this shit would be much worse if he we did not have the courts.

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

Bahahahahaha. What a spectacular day has been.

 

[wandering]

Judicial branch best branch

 

[Secret Fawful]

Oh, fuck yes. That's wonderful news!

 

[Mahonay]

Hahahahaha get fucked you orange turd

 

[Arttemis]

It's already done, there's already been a small leak. What ramifications will there be? Construction on the alternative pipeline route?

How about investing in renewables like every other civilized nation?

 

[ChrisD]

It's already done, there's already been a small leak. What ramifications will there be? Construction on the alternative pipeline route?

How about investing in renewables like every other civilized nation?

Renewables are a myth started by the Chinese to make American product worth less! Very bad!

 

[SwiftDeath]

So is Trump's 2nd superpower after projection an innate ability to pick the worst possible lawyers?

It's as if there isn't a proficient lawyer in his whole administration

 

[Mortemis]

Fuck yeah, great to hear. Hoping for the best.

 

[TheCochese]

Three scoops, sir?

 

[Inuhanyou]

Its already completed and leaking isn't it? They aren't going to take it down now are they?

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

It's already done, there's already been a small leak. What ramifications will there be? Construction on the alternative pipeline route?

How about investing in renewables like every other civilized nation?

How about shutting down the pipeline.

 

[massoluk]

God damn, the Third Branch is amazing.

 

[Mahonay]

It's already done, there's already been a small leak. What ramifications will there be? Construction on the alternative pipeline route?

How about investing in renewables like every other civilized nation?

Our president doesn't believe in global warming.

Hope the pipeline is shutdown.

Fuck this reality. God I hope he goes jail.

 

[More_Badass]

Once again the courts save the day.

As bad Trump has been (and he has), this shit would be much worse if he we did not have the courts.

Which is why this will never stop being so satisfying

 

[night814]

Which is why this will never stop being so satisfying

Oooo baby that is HOTTTTTTT

 

[DrSlek]

SO
MUCH
WINNING

 

[More_Badass]

Oooo baby that is HOTTTTTTT

I believe it first appeared when the first Muslim ban was halted. And it's only been reaffirmed again and again over the last months.

 

[Dead Prince]

Trump stays winning

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Judicial branch best branch

Which is why it would have been nice if everyone voted Hillary so that she would be the one appointing judges instead of Trump...

 

[davepoobond]

unexpected birthday gift

 

[benjipwns]

Shame the courts didn't block the illegal eminent domain grabs for this two years ago because I doubt the courts are going to touch the pipeline with it complete other than to shuffle some fines off to the tribes to make them "whole" for the lax approval process.

Also the case number is:

1:16-cv-01534-JEB

JEBMENTIUM BUILDING

 

[Got]

lol, what fuckfaces

 

[tirminyl]

Oh, this is good news!

 

[Eusis]

So is Trump's 2nd superpower after projection an innate ability to pick the worst possible lawyers?

It's as if there isn't a proficient lawyer in his whole administration

That, or good lawyers have a superpower to know when it's best to not bother with someone. And frankly you don't need superpowers to know Trump would be a nightmare to have to defend in court.

 

[Snaku]

 

[Baroquemantic]

Good!

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Get fucked ND legislature.

 

[crimsondynamics]

Which is why this will never stop being so satisfying

One of the best political cartoons I've seen in ages.

 

[lastplayed]

 

[sangreal]

Conservatives bought their own bullshit that Obama did everything by fiat and thought they could just reverse everything easily

 

[Beartruck]

It's already done, there's already been a small leak. What ramifications will there be? Construction on the alternative pipeline route?

How about investing in renewables like every other civilized nation?

Un-fucking-believable. They fought the whole thing because of worries about a leak, it gets shoved through, and what happens right away? A leak. Do they just not give a shit enough to build the thing better to at least try to avoid the negative press?

 

[O_Atoll]

What a great day.

 

[benjipwns]

Un-fucking-believable. They fought the whole thing because of worries about a leak, it gets shoved through, and what happens right away? A leak. Do they just not give a shit enough to build the thing better to at least try to avoid the negative press?

Hey buddy, one of the leaks wasn't theirs, it was a pipeline connected to it.

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Mutha fuckin checks and balances son.

 

[Lord Frieza]

Which is why it would have been nice if everyone voted Hillary so that she would be the one appointing judges instead of Trump...

Yeah, there was another thread about that, and it's very possible Trump will get about 1/8 of federal judge seats filled, and the first picks have been some real vile fuckers.

 

[brau]

Today has been loaded with positive news against Donnie.

Its been awesome!

 

[NullPointer]

Wonderful news.

 

[Media]

Shame the courts didn't block the illegal eminent domain grabs for this two years ago because I doubt the courts are going to touch the pipeline with it complete other than to shuffle some fines off to the tribes to make them "whole" for the lax approval process.

Also the case number is:

JEBMENTIUM BUILDING

This.

It's a victory, but a hollow one, and too late. Standing Rock was brutalized and will continue to be when this thing destroys their water in a few years.

I mean look at Flint. Now imagine a res without clean drinking water and how much people care about native issues. They'd never get justice.

 

[chicken_pasta]

It's amazing how one of the three branches of the most powerful country in the world is managing to be so utterly inept.

Its already completed and leaking isn't it? They aren't going to take it down now are they?

Oh, so THAT'S the leaker! #LockItUp.

 

[gutter_trash]

Trump is going to pull an Andrew Jackson and ignore the Supreme Court

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I hope this helps take down the pipe.

Fuck the pipe.

 

[darkwing]

unless there is an issued TRO, the pipe is still working

 

[benjipwns]

The tribes will ask for the pipeline to be shutdown, but I'm really not expecting them to get that, I have to imagine all they'll get in the end is a check.

Boasberg ruled that the federal government “substantially complied” with the federal environmental permitting law that governs projects such as Dakota Access, a 1,170-mile $3.8 billion pipeline that can carry up to 570,000 barrels of oil per day.

But, Boasberg wrote in a 91-page opinion, the Army Corps of Engineers “did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effects are likely to be highly controversial.”

He ruled that the Army Corps, which permitted the project, would need to conduct a new review of Dakota Access that considers those factors.

But Boasberg did not order Dakota Access to cease operations, which have been underway since June 1. He said that is a “separate question” that he will consider in the future.

But Boasberg defended many of the federal decisions that went into permuting the project, saying the Army Corps “substantially complied with [the National Environmental Policy Act] in many areas.”

He also rejected the tribes’ argument that Trump’s decision that allowed the project to move forward was illegal.

Boasberg has scheduled a briefing next week to determine what happens next, including hearing tribal arguments that oil should stop running through the pipeline while regulators reconsider the project’s permits.