The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the US Supreme Court | Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. | By a 5-to-4 vote, Republicans halted President Obama’s Clean Power Plan

The whole thing is absolutely insane:

> Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Even though those harms cost far more than Obama’s Clean Power Plan did — it would have on net saved money.