Supremes get sonar case

This is another case in which environmental regulations are in danger of being gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Under a judge's order, military operations off the California coast may not use sonar within a certain distance of marine mammals and must reduce sonar power during certain conditions. That's because the training area includes dozens of marine mammal species, some of which are protected by the Endangered Species Act. And sonar may ruin the hearing of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales as it booms across the sea. Some of these water-dwelling animals have also become beached and stranded after sonar exposure.

But the Bush regime (as usual) doesn't get it, so it's taking the case to the SCrOTUS in an attempt to get the order overturned. What it boils down to is that the dimwitted Bush White House thinks the Pentagon shouldn't have to follow the law.

Ironically, nixing the environmental regulations would involve overturning the Ninth Circuit, which had actually made a proper ruling (in contrast to its usual Bushism).

If the Supreme Court does rule in the ruling party's favor again, how do we expect laws and regulations to ever be enforced?

(Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41924.html)