Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., filed a formal brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down a lower court ruling that paused a pipeline approved under the recent debt ceiling bill.
filed a brief with the Supreme Court Tuesday asking the high court to reinstate the Mountain Valley Pipeline , a 303-mile natural gas pipeline under construction.
"But, yet again, this vital energy infrastructure project has been put on hold by the Fourth Circuit despite the new law clearly stating that the Fourth Circuit no longer has this authority. "We cannot let this continue any longer," he added."It’s a shame when members of Congress have to ask the Supreme Court to intervene to maintain the credibility of the laws that we have passed and the President has signed, but I am confident that the Court will uphold our laws and allow construction of MVP to resume."included language transferring the jurisdiction for judicial review from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to the U.S.
The legislation specifically states the D.C. Circuit Court"shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over any claim alleging the invalidity" of theOn Friday, the pipeline's developer asked the Supreme Court to vacate the stay issued by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court then set a deadline of early next week for plaintiffs, a coalition of environmental groups, to respond.
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