Left-Leaning Group Says EPA Grants Ruling Would ‘Astonish’ Framers

A left-leaning group is urging the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court’s dismissal of a high-profile challenge to EPA’s freeze of environmental justice (EJ) grants, arguing that the decision would have “astonished the founding generation” because “no tenet was more central to the preservation of liberty than” Congress’ appropriations power. A Nov. 3 amicus brief by the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) leans heavily on tactics traditionally used by conservative groups that rely on the positions of the country’s...