Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the latest on the congressional investigation into the Biden family's business dealings and Trump's appearance in a Miami federal court.
Several lawmakers excoriated a federal appeals court ruling Monday granting a coalition of environmental groups' request to block construction of a major natural gas pipelineThe deb ceiling bill — the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Act which suspended the limit on federal debt through early 2025 — included a provision automatically approving any outstanding federal environmental permits for the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline running from West Virginia to Virginia.
"This is an activist court," Joyce added."It's a court that stood in the way of this construction too many times. So, the Mountain Valley pipeline obtained all the necessary state, all the necessary federal permits before starting construction way back in 2018, where the cost was estimated to be at $3 billion."
Sections of steel pipe for the Mountain Valley Pipeline are pictured Aug. 31, 2022, in Bent Mountain, Virginia.included language from legislation Joyce previously authored which transfers the jurisdiction for judicial review from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The legislation states the D.C. Circuit Court"shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over any claim alleging the invalidity of" the