Supreme Court: Water case offers window into Barrett’s jurisprudence
A low-profile 2018 Clean Water Act case could offer clues into how President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett would rule on environmental issues. As a judge for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett joined — but didn’t write — the court’s decision in Orchard Hill Building Co. v. Army Corps of Engineers, which said the federal government had not provided enough evidence to support its finding that 13 acres of Illinois wetlands slated for development were in fact waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, subject to federal protection.
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