Election and Supreme Court Fight Will Decide Trump’s Environmental Legacy

“James E. Tierney, a former Maine attorney general who now teaches courses at Harvard Law School on the role of attorneys general, said that they are ‘institutionally designed to be independent watchdogs, independent brakes on power.’

Their relative independence from executive power, whether in their own state or the federal government, goes back to the thirteen original colonies, and, before that, English common law.

’If there’s a Democratic president, roll up your sleeves and wait for Texas to file lawsuits against President Biden,’ he said.”

Lisa Friedman and John Schwartz, “Election and Supreme Court Fight Will Decide Trump’s Environmental Legacy,” New York Times, Sept. 23, 2020