Samuel Alito in Government Bullies, by Senator Rand Paul (R, KY)


On Environment: EPA enforcement gives no recourse to homeowners

In the words of one former Army Corps of Engineers official, "for regulatory purposes, a wetland is whatever we decide it is." Courts have taken the deferential attitude that they cannot question themselves to take up whether or not the EPA has followed their own moving-target rules.

Justice Samuel Alito was most skeptical while questioning the Justice Department's deputy solicitor general and legal counsel for the EPA, exclaiming, "Don't you think most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can't happen in the US? You buy property to build a house. You think maybe there is a little drainage problem in part of your lot, so you start to build the house and then you get an order from the EPA which says: You have filled in wetlands, so you can't build your house; remove the fill, put in all kinds of plants; and now you have to let us on your premises whenever we want to."

Source: Government Bullies, by Rand Paul, p. 37-39 Sep 12, 2012

The above quotations are from Government Bullies
How Everyday Americans Are Being Harrassed, Abused, And Imprisoned by the Feds

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