CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is again leading a multistate lawsuit against a Biden administration agency rule, again alleging Biden is illegally bypassing Congress to make laws through the executive branch.
Morrisey is co-leading a coalition of more than 20 states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asking a North Dakota federal district court to vacate the newly published final rule redefining Waters of the United States (WOTUS) and declare it unlawful.
Georgia, Iowa and North Dakota are suit co-leaders. Neighbor states Ohio and Virginia are among the plaintiffs.
“This is a textbook case of federal overreach,” Morrisey said in a press conference announcing the suit. He added in an accompanying press release, “This new final rule is a decades-long effort by the EPA to regulate purely intrastate waters without the explicit consent of Congress. This is yet another attempt from unelected bureaucrats to expand their own authority by broadly defining Waters of the United States.”
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