Roger Pilon of Cato writes on NRO about the frightful powers claimed for Obama to mandate compliance with carbon emission caps. To paraphrase that famous line in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, “Legislation? We don’t need no stinkin’ legislation.”

The greens are saying that, due to vague laws and a stupidly malleable Supreme Court ruling, Obama is the climate czar.

The president was supposed to have very limited authority under the Constitution. Unfortunately, as Pilon shows, the Constitution has been trashed.