Green Crossroads for the Next Supreme Court. By Bryan Walsh, Time, July 15, 2008. "The next President has the power to appoint a new Justice who will tilt the Court. Perennially debated matters, like abortion rights, could be at stake, along with new hot-button issues such as the rights of prisoners held at Guantánamo. What's less well known is that there are also a number of vital environmental cases facing the Court that could go either way, depending on who wins the Presidency. 'There are few areas where the battle lines are as clearly drawn between environmentalists and their opponents as the Supreme Court,' says Doug Kendall... founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), a left-leaning legal think tank that watches Supreme Court decisions and advocates public-interest law... Massachusetts v. EPA was another of the Court's many 5-4, bitterly divided rulings, with both Justice Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts dissenting from the majority [ruling that EPA did have the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions]. Those two happen to be the Justices whom McCain says he would like his possible future Court nominees to emulate."
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