www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-28/supreme-court-overturns-chevron-ruling-in-blow-to-agency-power
Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Ruling in Blow to Agency Power
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Hope you all like the FAA not being able to make sure the airlines have safe aircraft and the FRA doing the same for the endless tons of hazmat being hauled through your backyards.
Sounds like this is Boeing's wet dream
Yup. Plus Boeing knows the government will never allow the company to fail so they can be as reckless as they like.
Plus now it's legal to bribe for votes. Yeah.
Plus if you say anything, you might start feeing a lil suicidal
Lol I heard someone on a podcast describe it as "being a whistleblower against Boeing immediately drops your health bar to 1HP"
I kind of already do.
Not that I trusted the "adults" in the room to begin with, in part because of all their lead poisoning, but if 6 utterly corrupt people 50 years older than me get to decide that the next 60 years of my life will be, at best, full of chemical spills in my water, buildings made of accelerants, cars that explode at random, food that's made of plastic...
Like what's the goddamn point? They're not even giving me the option of having a world to protect or a legacy to leave or even the possibility of some humans being left to remember anything we've done.
It’s a “gratuity” after the vote…
see this is what I don’t get, baring the ultra mega wealthy who have private jets, the rich, politicians etc still have to get on the same Boeing aircraft as the rest of us. In that same vein, breathe the same air and eat the same food??? They are literally hurting themselves???
These people are mostly just narcissists who have a lot of money, usually for reasons that have way more to do with luck then competency. There is no end game; they are just that dumb and greedy. Ffs Silicon Valley bitcoin millionaires have been funding efforts to break us out of the matrix. Let that sink in.
They believe corporations will self regulate due to market pressures. This is probably true with Boeing, given the visibility of airplane safety failures. Not so true with poisoning the food supply in various ways or worker safety. We know this because we created these agencies in response to systemic failures of the market to regulate industry. Now we get to learn the same lessons all over again.
That belief in self regulation also completely glosses over what causes the "market pressure". It's those deaths that stir up public outrage and push companies, which logically means that self regulation really only happens when people are harmed, and those believers in the market forces are fine sacrificing peoples health, safety, and lives for a more financially efficient market.
They seem more interested in market pressure than atmospheric pressure.
Even with Boeing, change in airline manufacturing takes decades. So it's going to be a while before that market pressure has any effect
Things won’t fall apart over night but they and their rich friends will make a bunch of money and be dead before they see the consequences.
It’s why nobody is interested in doing anything about the environment - everyone with power is willing to roll the dice that they can ride it out because it probably won’t get too bad in their lifetime so why inconvenience themselves for something that’s going to be the next generations problem?
Likely going to make it easier to pull off the far right's Project 2025 wishlist as well. We're in a pretty bad spot, folks.
It is time that it is uncovered that trump was illegitimate and thus his appointments void. Hopefully before Jimmy Carter passes.
Let's say we magically had a liberal court tomorrow. How would this ruling be overturned? What would the process be? Would it stand because liberal justices would rule on this as new precedent while ignoring the corruption that led to it? That would be typical.
Most of these decisions are overturning years to decades to centuries of precedent.
So overturning would just repeat the same logic, while trying to preserve the concept of precedent that the activist, corrupt conservative justices and their benefactors have routinely trashed.
You put the right people on the court, then you tee up a case for them to rule on. Supreme Court is not bound by precedent of any kind
Yeah, they used to overturn cases with caution though, actually holding previous rulings with respect in all but extreme cases. Now though, all bets are off.
I don’t ever want to hear about how conservatives give a shit about the environment.
Pretty sure they stopped pretending a long time ago. Now it’s all “liberal nonsense”.
I think that stopped as far back as Teddy Roosevelt
Nixon created the epa.
Conservatives used to actually care about conserving nature (a tad)
It's hard to hide the horror of rivers being on fire.
You know as much as they like hunting and nature I find it so strange they don't give a shit about actual conservation.
"Make American Water And Soil Contaminated Again."
It's called we do a little Idiocracy.
It's not ideal watching the right wing burn down America in real time like this
The last 24 hours have been horrific.
Not my favorite. And I'm a white straight dude who could theoretically weather this shit, but I think accelerationism is bunk and care about more than just myself and my wife and son.
I don't like being alarmist (jk I have a German history degree I live for it), but it's time for the dems to make some big, bold gambles I think.
Even ignoring the political calculus of last night, I just emotionally hurt watching a decent man who sacrificed his twilight years just kinda lose it like that knowing he was fucking up. It's like the first time you see your grandpa or dad start to go.
Like an appoint 4 more judges and ram them through a 51-49 senate before November kind of gamble? Because I am down for that right now.
Edit: nope, this is wrong. Congress determines the size of the courts. Thanks code_archeologist.
Right now the SC is asserting they have more power than other branches of government. Biden could issue an EO that says no to every ruling the SC makes. Thusly asserting the Executive is more powerful than the SC. Its a completely reasonable thing to do. He could also issue one that appoints more judges or simply point out that the court simply does not have the powers that they are saying they do which in reality they do not. They are operating outside the rules of law and the powers they are granted.
Edit: nope, this is wrong. Congress determines the size of the courts. Thanks
Does the president have to follow the law? Supreme Court hasn't decided yet so why not just break it and add 100 judges to the Court unilaterally and send the military to enforce it?
You need to change your username. :)
if you just added everyone to the supreme court we would get way more moderate outcomes. ballot initiatives have delivered far more moderate outcomes than this court
Moderately good point
Heheh. Fun image.
'Biden and the Demoncrats are running an dictatorial takeover of the supreme court! They're letting anyone onto it!'
'but... They just made every citizen of the US a supreme Court justice. Including you?'
'yeah! What kind of dictator makes ME a judge?!'
To add the four seats would require a bill to go through the Republican controlled House.
Oh shit. Congress does determine the size of the court. I saw your reply and was like “nuh-uh.” But yeah, you’re right. We’d need both chambers and the presidency.
Just wait. They haven't given the presidential immunity decision yet.
That won't be until Monday.
At that point, it would be the worst 96 hours, should SCOTUS rule the way I think it will.
if they rule the president is immune can't he just appoint 100 judges to the court on his own and send the military to enforce it?
Or assassinate any sitting judges he doesn’t approve of and replace them.
He won’t though even if given the power to. It’s the paradox of tolerance.
Depends on the ruling, but that's a possibility.
In case this missed you, repubs are even redefining "jury".
"US Supreme Court rejects challenges to Florida’s use of 6-member juries"
Its only going to get worse.
If Trump wins, they burn the entire fucking thing down and start throwing dissenters in jail.
If Biden wins, the SCOTUS keeps overturning all the good that's been done for decades in spite.
The US is on a critical tipping point and its fucking terrifying. Voters need to vote Biden or whoever else they may change to if they go that way. Democracy literally depends on it. Project 2025 will be a bloodbath.
The 2024 election is moot at this point. SCOTUS has wrested all the power, and the Senate filibuster will prevent any changes to the court's makeup that aren't Republican choices.
It all needs to go. Several of the founding fathers knew this. What’s crazy is, most Americans agree (regardless of political leaning), that the system is corrupt and in need of a complete overhaul. Good luck getting them to agree on what that looks like though.
Start by removing everyone in power, holding new elections for all of them, but first establishing that money is not fucking speech and getting it all out of our political process. Even if Dems win in November or DT dies of old age the system itself won’t just magically right itself.
We don’t need an overhaul by conservatives. That’s the problem. They are in large the most corrupt.
They've been doing it since Obama got elected. They got their fragile feelings hurt so bad, they want to destroy America, to make sure another non-white never gets elected again.
Burning it down with no clue what to replace it with
They don’t want to replace it, that’s the point. They do not want the federal government to exists in any way except to run the military and handle emergency response. I’m not sure how anyone is confused by this. They want a world where everyone is on their own, those at the top remain untouchable, and the poor and middle class can go fuck themselves. It’s very similar to the world we have now but 3000% worse for the environment (as hard as that is to believe).
Nothing. They don't want any laws, because in a lawless place, they can get up to all the illicit shit they do with even less fear of repercussions. They truly think that rugged individualism serves them best because they're established as rich, influential people. Conservatives are all ghouls without conscience or compassion.
I've already been making my mind up to leave, and this is just speeding that along.
'Course, it isn't even just about people who live in the country, those environmental protections (or lack thereof) affect everyone eventually. But hey, fuck you got mine or something, right?
That's the thing: the world suffers if America turns fascist. In a myriad of ways. Can't escape it.
I don't blame people who are the likely targets of trump's brown shirt shit leaving for their own safety, but this is my home and if I leave then that's two less votes against this shit
I guess so. But seeing this ruling's practically ruined my whole day. I genuinely fear for what this country will become before long. I don't want any family of mine to live in those conditions.
I’m curious to see how much more it will take until people start burning down the people making these decisions
In a world of bread and circuses it will take a lot for most people. Most of us will focus on protecting our own and avoid the risk, myself included. It's understandable. There aren't a lot of John Browns out there.
Now people who have nothing to lose or are directly and immediately harmed might act out of desperation or anger.
it was a firesale at SCOTUS this week. and we all got burned
i wish they could be forced to rule on things that they'll actually see the consequences of.
This is gonna completely destroy the entire judicial system as the lower courts will face a 1,000,000 lawsuits seeking judgement on this idiot ruling
Also the intent, I'm sure. If you can't pack every court with Federalist Society goons, just jam up the works for the rest of it.
Yet another 6-3 decision, as if we needed any more proof that conservatives on the court are leading by ideological views over law. This court is a disaster.
Keep in mind there have been 70 Supreme Court decisions based on Chevron, with 17,000 more in the lower courts. It was a unanimous decision in 1984. This court is under control of conservative extremism.
Not the first unanimous decision they overturned decades after the fact, either. This feckless court is unaccountable royalty and acts like it 100%.
The irony in the debate last night when trump was asked about abortion pills he said the scotus had ruled on it and that was the law. Just like roe was settled law right...
How does anybody even square unanimous decisions being overturned with the idea that the court is anything other than just another political body?
What do the current six even assert in this case? That the previous nine were just fucking stupid?
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It'll be right after they restrict women's ability to leave marriages--which is in the works already, ramping up as next talking points.
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It’s probably going to get started when a blue state refuses to hand over a woman or doctor who has had an abortion, or parents of a child seeking gender affirming care.
There is going to be an extreme and massive right wing Christian push if trump wins. This is all just the warm up. It is going to get worse, way worse
Which is why we need to win. We have to. If we can win in 24 and ride a momentum until 32, which I know is no small feat, we can most likely get the SC to a 5-4 liberal and fix all this mess. It’s not going to be easy at all, but we have to stop them.
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They're really doing it. Blowing up our economy and killing the golden goose. Good luck in the stock market, guys, because you'll have no idea what's going on now.
The stock market will likely soar. Companies not being restrained by regulations will increase profit which will increase stock prices. The long term damage to society will be immeasurable though.
Only in the short term, and only because this is the dumbest market in our lifetimes with the most casuals. It's not just environmental legislation, ok? It's financial fraud legislation, food, agriculture, labor. Basic CAFE regulations for car makers, financial fraud, stock and commodity manipulation, payroll fraud and unionization. It's all gone, poof. As of this morning, no one knows what the rules are.
As fraud is left unpunished, markets are upended and lose global business, businesses evaporate, investors can't invest with confidence, every thing will be in question.
Chaos and economies are like oil and water, and the Supreme Court just knocked the whole Jenga tower over, pieces everywhere.
Why do Republicans want to make it easier for corporations to poison babies? I mean that's what this ruling does. but corporate media won't cover it that way
Why would corporate media do anything to go against their masters?
Well, if you look at the major media spokespeople of the current conservative movement, most of them are selling dodgy pills and ointments from factories in China, so being able to poison babies, kids and adults alike is a great income stream.
Gotta sell that Colloidal Silver and Ivermectin.
In the long term you are absolutely correct and everything you describe is the reason we had regulations enacted in the first place because unregulated capitalism is a disaster for society. I guess we (and future generations) will have to relearn what most of us already knew. the next 80 years are going to be interesting and mostly will suck.
I'm not sure we have that long, but I certainly don't.
Society won't make it 40 more, let alone 80
If those crazy Christian Nationalists get their hands on Nukes, who's to stop them from ending the world to fulfill something or other?
The long term damage to society will be immeasurable though
Unfortunately not enough people think long term
The stock market also soared in July of 1929.
Sometimes the bad guys win, it ain’t like in the movies.
The bad guys have been on a goddamn winning streak for the past 10 years.
In human history, good guys are the underdogs who win every 1,567th game.
watch "Crimes and Misdemeanors"
The Supreme Court is dismantling our government brick by brick
Minute by minute
I mean, this one was closer to a wrecking ball for operations
Maybe the most maddening part is a quote from Gorsuch regarding the 1984 decision:
“[the 1984 decision] operated to undermine rather than advance reliance interests, often to the detriment of ordinary Americans.”
How fucking dare he spin this in reverse. Taking regulatory decision-making out of the hands of the scientists and subject matter experts is the true blow to ordinary Americans.
We are in a death spiral thanks to these Trump appointed monsters.
Can't wait for all of our rivers to be massively polluted and our air quality to plunge.
I don't think young Americans understand what it was like prior the EPA having a bunch of power.
Have a look: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12186261/tktk-vintage-EPA.html
They’re already dumping processing plant waste water into the platte river where I live. This decision just made it legal. As an angler I am pissed.
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Salton Sea looks like something straight out of Fallout.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually filmed some scenes there.
Duke Energy is probably going to go back to dumping coal ash into the Cape Fear River now.
To anyone still flying a Trump flag in NC: I know where you can stick that thing.
I’m ready to have flaming rivers again. I guess that’s what they meant with maga.
Again.
I work in an industry heavily regulated by OSHA. OSHA is written vaguely by congress to allow for interpretation by experts and is meant as a living document. This may crush that and any other industry standards that congress does not explicitly write into law. Those include ASME, ASTM, ANSI, NFP, and any international code standards (IBC, IRC, ETC.). Congress will have to adopt every new edition of any standard that an agency needs to refer to.
This is a disaster and will break the government because it will be unable to function.
Exactly what the corporations want. They can fly under the radar of an extremely overloaded congress that is unable to keep up, and by the time they get around to it, the damage will have been done.
Actually this isn't what most corporations want, most corps want a stable and well functioning government they can control and glean from.
What the Supreme Court just did was upend everything to a point where they get to make the final say, creating a class of king makers as it stands right now. That means chaos, and corporations and the stock market hate chaos.
A very small amount of people love it and make billions, but everyone else including corporations end up losing in the long run over it.
They’ve been given carte blanche to do whatever they want with no regulation. All they have to do to neuter an agency is get a case in front of a Republican judge now. Regulatory agencies are toothless and may as well be discarded.
Yep. This decision pulls regulation from agencies and leaves it up to the courts and congress. The courts are hopelessly overburdened as it is, and congress doesn't function because Republicans intentionally gridlock everything. In other words, there will no longer be regulations. This "Court" is a fucking disease.
Not just overburdened, but hopelessly incompetent. The entire point of these agencies was actual experts making the policies we enjoy.
Exactly, good point. Instead of scientists creating regulation it'll be up to (at best) someone in Congress. Horrifying.
Just as intended
That’s the plan.
From Bloomberg News reporter Greg Stohr:
A divided US Supreme Court threw out a decades-old legal doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws, issuing a blockbuster ruling that will constrain environmental, consumer and financial-watchdog agencies.
The 6-3 decision, which came in a fight over a fishing-industry regulation, is a long-sought triumph for opponents of big government. The court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 ruling that Democratic administrations had used as a legal building block for new regulations.
The Supreme Court demands that Congress explicitly come up with every single regulation themselves instead of delegating it to agencies that have thousands of people to do that job. Nothing will ever get done, Congress is not capable of doing this job, and corporations will be able to run amok without worrying about regulations.
And that’s the goal. The corps are getting their moneys worth from the bought and paid politicians.
Three passenger jets fell out of the sky because the airline industry, newly unencumbered by regulation, decided that maintenance was an unnecessary expense? Congress will get right on that! Just as soon as they get past 260 days of hearings on the "weaponisation of the justice system" following Eric Trump receiving a parking ticket. Oh, and then there's the little matter of electing a new Speaker because one congressman called for it. But fear not! I'm sure they'll get around to it by the next term...
Eeeeh, I'm sure it'll be fine. The airline industry will just kill the complainants and slander the victim's families, congress won't even have to worry about it, all the interested parties will be dead.
Looking forward to the Russian corporate model operating in every industry! /S
That's the plan
This is the entire article.
EDIT: As in I ran it through archive.is, and the two paragraphs in that comment are the entire article
A “blow” to agency power is an understatement. Agency power has been absolutely gutted. Our entire government is now significantly less functional due to this ruling.
Personally I'm excited to see what God-Emperor Gorsuch thinks about each and every highly technical question that comes before the government. Subject-matter experts have had it too easy for too long.
It turns out the Great Filter is dealing with unchecked greed and corruption. This is going to cause so much destruction and suffering.
Fools will cheer this because they've been programmed to hate anything under the umbrella of "regulation," but they have no idea how many regulations protect them every day.
In my opinion, if Biden loses, it's ballgame. The country officially becomes a full-blown corporatocracy.
Make peace with these days being the last of the good days. Environmental rollbacks, food regulation rollbacks, consumer protections, privacy protections. All gone because agencies were stripped of their authority.
The Great Filter is what crossed my mind the other day.
I think we may have the answer: humanity squanders its home and lets the systems that hold societies together decay.
The next pandemic will be an absolute horrorshow.
Jesus Christ. At some point I have to wonder if these aren’t serpent people a’la Lin Carter purposefully trying to destroy human civilization and return the planet to Mesozoic conditions.
Scotus rules air pollution is consitutional.
Can’t Congress codify the original Chevron decision?
Yes, like Roe V Wade, explicit wording would have eliminated this SCOTUS decision.
Yeah all you need is 60 votes from the Senate too! Might as well wish on a shooting star because you have just about as much of a chance of resurrecting Chevron that way.
Can’t Congress codify the original Chevron decision?
I'm sure any Republican controlled branch will get right on that....
Maybe. SCOTUS could rule it an unconstitutional delegation of power between the branches.
This completely fucks over the environmental protections. 6 power hungry lunatics just fucked over the world.
So much more than that. The financial regulators have just been destroyed, too, and that will shortly blow up the markets and the economy, even if Trump wasn't supersizing the deficit again. The whole nation is going to share the fate of all his other businesses.
No one realizes how fast this whole thing can come apart. It's all built on a foundation of law and order that doesn't exist now. The corporations will pick this apart while getting picked apart by holes they don't realize exist now. No investment will be safe as fraud will become the norm and people will have to send their money overseas for any confidence.
Just think about the sweet shareholder value
None of the end of the world movies prepared me for shareholders and MBAs fucking everything up. Just give me a good old fashioned alien invasion or zombie apocalypse ffs.
This is so, so bad. So bad. It's an oligarch's wet dream. The amount of suffering that will happen to millions of people is unimaginable.
Did anyone ever read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"? That's what they're pushing us back to. What's in your medicine? Who knows. Like picking animal hair and shit out of your food? Get ready.
Unfortunately thats one of the books our state banned recently in schools.
They also tried to roll back child labor protections so I wouldn't consider it a coincidence
Yep. This is huge. Another step to destroying the federal government - one of the primary goals of Project 2025. SCOTUS will weaken the government to the point that when Trump takes office in January his administration will just simply start deleting government agencies and there will be no way to stop them ironically deleting their own power with the disintegration of those agencies. When they start talking about dismantling even the f*cking weather service you know we're in for some tough times ahead and could take many decades to rebuild and fix everything down the road. It might not even be possible to repair all the damage that's about to be done to the country.
I'm 44 years old and I've already resigned myself to the rest of my adult life being about cleaning up the Boomer's colossal fucking mess. And that was before Trump came along.
As a non-American, I will be morbidly fascinated to see what foreign governments and corporate entities step into the void left by the deletion of the American government.
These people imagine that they will live free, by crippling the only thing stopping us foreigners from owning them and everything around them.
It's like watching a nation under attack decide to disband their army. You won't become free, you only allow foreign soldiers in uncontested.
But hey; that's what American conservatives seem to want. To hand America over to foreign owned powers.
I think you should be a lot more afraid than that my guy. After they're done with us, what do you think they're going to do with the worlds most power military in hand? I don't, and I'm scared
It will take a generation to undo the damage and I don’t know if the Democratic party or the voters are willing to do what is necessary.
The coup is ongoing and the Dems are too stupid and impotent to fight.
I don’t think it’s stupidity as much as unwilling to fight with the same no holds bard get into the mud mentality.
It won’t be possible to undo the damage. The damage will be permanent and long lasting. I don’t think our country will survive long term because of it.
SC: overturns one of the biggest landmark cases in US history
The media for the next 6 months: “HERE’S OUR LATEST RERUN OF THE BIDEN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, WOW BIDEN SURE DID STUTTER A LOT HE LOOKS SUPER UNFIT FOR OFFICE, LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY FROM THE THINGS THAT ACTUALLY MATTER, STUTTERING SOMETIMES = BEING SENILE SO MAKE SURE TO VOTE FOR THE EVEN MORE SENILE GUY SO WE CAN GET MORE AWESOME SUPREME COURT JUSTICES”
“You best start believing in corporate oligarchies, Miss Turner. You’re in one”
It’s really crazy to see conservatives celebrating this decision. Sure, dislike the administrative state — whatever.
How can you be happy about the prospect of more polluted air and waterways? How can you be happy that financial institutions can wantonly gamble with the economy? Whatever happened to wanting better for future generations?
Conservativism is a death cult. Always has been. Always will be.
Because science is inherently about facts and conservatives don’t deal in facts.
And wishing good for future generations is communism.
Compared to the circus of last night, this will get minimum attention, but effectively provides carte blanche to corporations to pollute and operate however they want. it's unbelievably bad
So, are we just done and to the point of kicking down ceo doors yet?
Haha, there is no amount of money in the world that can protect them once the country fails.
It really feels like the Roberts court is on a smash and grab spree of ruling, just blowing up the entire nation in short order to get the Federalist Society's objectives completed in very short order. Are they scared the people will vote for 4 more years of Biden, and they won't be in shape to stay on the bench?
No, they're locking in their gains, something Democrats routinely refuse to do.
Well if Federal Courts are now replacing the executive regulatory agencies, the incentive for both parties to reorganize and stack courts in their favor is overwhelming. Congress can create the EPA court, the FAA court, basically every regulatory law will end up designating which courts and which circuit appeals hears the cases, knowing SCOTUS can't intervene in more than around 150 cases annually max.
This will be fun when car seats are no longer regulated for safety and protection in a car accident and baby formula is 70% cellulose filler.
America is beyond fucked at this point.
Dear Corporate Masters: here are the keys to everything. Now, where are our retrospective gifts of appreciation for the great job we're doing? XO, Six out of Nine "Justices."
The planet is literally boiling!!
And the Supreme Court sides with fossil fuel companies !!
OMFG!! Keep taking Ls on the climate front
So weed is legal now, since it was a regulatory agency that scheduled it, right?
Prepare for more plane malfunctions, trains derailed, toxic spills, and more. This Supreme Court is insane.
At what point do we just ignore the Supreme Court? Like it’s obvious what’s going on and they have no real enforcement besides Telling the DOJ to do something which is then up to the DOJ.
Blue states will have to step up and put in laws/regulations for their states benefits. Then when SCOTUS gets involved just ignore them.
This SCOTUS is an unmitigated disaster that will likely bring down the entire country.
This ruling just set us back decades.. OSHA and other state agencies, may not be able to enforce safety regulations, NLRB may not be able to enforce Unionization violations (this includes current union contract violations), Food and Drug agencies may not be able to enforce food and safety regulations across the nation. The list includes every federal, state, and local agency out there. The results are going to be devistating to every person in the country, and only will favor big business and the rich in the end.
And, that’s a wrap.
I love it when we have an entire party dedicated to dismantling any public good the government could possible do. /s
Fuck precedence right?
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Democrats were sitting on their hands 45 years ago while the Koch Brothers and company were gaming out a generational plan to take the states, the school boards, and the courts and here we are today.
Best court money can buy.
These people are morons.
All that’s missing is SCOTUS saying that former presidents have complete immunity.
"6-3 decision, 6-3 decision...."
Honest question, what can I, an average American do in response to my country imploding on itself?
Vote. If that fails, revolution.
It's like Citizens United all over again. It will have sweeping repercussions for generations to come.
I don't think white males are immune to poisoned drinking water and planes falling out of the sky. This is going to negatively affect everyone.
Hmmm its like the Supreme Court was on the ballot in 2016. The country is going to be proper fucked for so long maybe forever. This coupled with legalized bribes aka “gratuity” the court is building a solid foundation of a kleptocracy
trump's legacy continues.
Corruption reigns supreme! 😱
Is this how you achieve immaculate water and air?
Thanks Federalists
This will be used to plow through the FDA’s drug and medicine approval authority, too.
In two swoops, the "high" court strips away the DOJ capability to effectively and correctly prosecute the J6 traitors and guys federal agency capability. I guess all those trips and bribes are finally paying off!
Great news for people who love cancer, pollution, dead wildlife, workplace injuries, and coercive employers.
Guess we're just going to let them legislate from the bench now 🫠
The judicial branch is now in charge of the US government.
Via “Statute” Congress authorized each environmental act with broad goals to protect the environment and public safety. This was then signed by the President. Congress then authorized the creation of each agency within that Statute. The President then appointed the respective Secretaries. Congress then authorized each agency to create the detailed rules to fulfill their goals. Because they recognized that the agency had the technology and science to understand and create specific “regulations”. Those regulations would go through exhaustive public hearings for public comment and discussion. Then back to Congress for approval. How did SCOTUS not know that the two other branches of government were successfully doing this with their approval for the last 52 years.
What happened to the supreme court trying not to overturn previous decisions it made? I get that these conservative justices want gut the federal government but doesn't this just increase the chance that when the court becomes liberal again those justices will overturn these decisions?
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