Give Up is on trial. At issue? Will the progressive blue state of California be able to force better environmental regulation through non-legislative action?

IN AN UNUSUAL BUT WELCOME intervention, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to wade into the global warming debate. In its next term, the court will hear a lawsuit brought by California and other [blue] states against the federal government for failing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Courts usually defer to the discretion of administrative agencies to implement the law, but in this case such deference is outweighed by the administration's glaring dereliction of duty.,

It will be interesting to see if the Give Up effect is allowed to persist. One major flaw of suggesting state-based regulation by emphasizing progressive regulation in the powerful blue economies (and suing states and the federal government to make them behave too) is that if the Bush Supreme Court overrules state authority (in a weird anti-states rights reversal I might add) then one of our main weapons for maintaining sanity disappears. We will have to actually care about this case, however, I fear I will not have the energy.

In good Give Up news, Blue states continue the brain drain and economic drain on the red states by passing measures encouraging embryonic stem cell R&D within their borders. It's even better news because the article describes multiple instances in which Dems are challenging Republicans on this issue, and Republicans being forced to the center by pro-science popular opinion. Can't fool them all the time I guess.