Search online for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in Rapanos v. United States and various descriptions will pop up—including “quagmire” and “first official mess of the Roberts era.”

The case—and the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s plurality opinion in particular—is central to President Donald Trump’s push to rein in one of the most consequential regulations ever issued under the Clean Water Act.

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