{"id":11718,"date":"2023-09-16T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2023-09-16T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:00:15","slug":"americas-trumpiest-court-just-put-itself-in-charge-of-nuclear-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11718","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Trumpiest court just put itself in charge of nuclear safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/scotus\/23841718\/edgelord-federal-judiciary-james-ho-fifth-circuit-abortion-guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Judge James Ho<\/a>&nbsp;is not a nuclear scientist, an expert in energy policy, an atomic engineer, or anyone else with any specialized knowledge whatsoever on how to store and dispose of nuclear waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, Ho and two of his far-right colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/21\/21-60743-CV0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put themselves in charge of much of America\u2019s nuclear safety regime<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 invalidating the power of actual nuclear policy regulators to decide how to deal with nuclear waste in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/8\/29\/23849054\/supreme-court-nuclear-safety-fifth-circuit-james-ho-radioactive-texas-commission\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/8\/29\/23849054\/supreme-court-nuclear-safety-fifth-circuit-james-ho-radioactive-texas-commission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Judge James Ho is not a nuclear scientist, an expert in energy policy, an atomic engineer, or anyone else with any specialized knowledge whatsoever on how to store and dispose of nuclear waste.<br \/>\nNevertheless, Ho and two of his far-right colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit just put themselves in charge of much of America\u2019s nuclear safety regime \u2014 invalidating the power of actual nuclear policy regulators to decide how to deal with nuclear waste in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/8\/29\/23849054\/supreme-court-nuclear-safety-fifth-circuit-james-ho-radioactive-texas-commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,221,103,1489,1213,180,444,512,170,1552],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-environment","tag-judges","tag-judiciary","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-power","tag-trump","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}