The Trump administration has asked the nation’s highest bench to add a water case to its slush pile.
Conservation groups earlier this year petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that a California agricultural drainage project is exempt from the Clean Water Act’s permitting requirements for point sources that flow directly into U.S. waters.
President Donald Trump’s top Supreme Court advocate responded in a recent brief that the project does not need a permit and the case isn’t worth the justices’ time.
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“If petitioners’ proposed interpretation were correct,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer, “‘all three of Congress’s aims’ in enacting the irrigated-agriculture exemption ‘would be thwarted.’”
