Commentary
At long last, the nightmare of building a dream house is over for Michael and Chantell Sackett.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency decision handed down on May 25 marks another important milestone in the court’s continuing effort to correct and rein in the abusive, unlawful overreach of the administrative state.
The decision reaffirms the rule of law and the right of Americans to protect their rights by holding abusive regulators to account in courts of law.
The EPA informed the Idaho couple in 2007 that the dry lot on which they intended to build contained wetlands, which in this case meant a ditch. That ditch feeds into a non-navigable creek, which feeds into Priest Lake, which is a navigable, intrastate lake….