It was a really bad week for America's wetlands and for flood-prone neighborhoods in New Jersey. The same ultra-right-wing Supreme Court that rolled back women's reproductive rights, put millions of formerly regulated wetlands beyond the protection of the U.S. EPA because they were not contiguous to the nation's surface waters, ignoring decades of precedent and basic earth science.
Trenton native son Justice Sam Alito, who wrote for the conservative majority opinion that radically rolled back essential wetland protections has no doubt seen the ravages of the mighty Delaware over his lifetime when it jumps its banks and converts West State Street to a mighty river.
