Neil Gorsuch is preparing his revenge
Republicans on the Supreme Court are, it appears,
planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies,
in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state”
since it was largely created during the New Deal in the 1930s.
If they pull it off, they could destroy the ability of:
— the EPA to regulate pollutants,
— the USDA to keep our food supply safe,
— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto the market,
— OSHA to protect workers,
— the CPSC to keep dangerous toys and consumer products off the market,
— the FTC to regulate monopolies,
— the DOT to come up with highway and automobile safety standards,
— the ATF to regulate guns,
— the Interior Department to regulate drilling and mining on federal lands,
— the Forest Service to protect our woodlands and rivers,
— and the Department of Labor to protect workers’ rights.
Among other things on the rightwing billionaire wish-list:
virtually the entirety of America’s ability to protect its citizens from corporate predation
rests on what’s called the Chevron deference (more on that in a moment),
which the Court appears prepared to overturn with a case they just accepted last week.
Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to eliminate the Department of Education “on day one” if he’s elected president.
If the Supreme Court has its way, he wouldn’t have to bother. It’ll become impotent.
The modern effort to destroy or at least neuter America’s protective agencies began when Ronald Reagan put
Anne Gorsuch in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In her first year heading the agency, there was a 79 percent decline in enforcement cases,
and a 69 percent drop in cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.
She pushed a 25 percent cut in her own agency’s funding into Reagan’s first budget proposal.
It took Congress years to overturn her cuts to the Clean Air Act “on everything from automobiles to furniture manufacturers,”
She took a meataxe to President Carter’s renewable energy programs and “set solar back a decade” according to Clapp.
Gorsuch finally resigned her office to avoid prosecution for what Newsweek described as
“a nasty scandal involving political manipulation,
[Super]fund mismanagement, perjury, and
destruction of subpoenaed do ents,
among other things.”
Her son, Neil Gorsuch, was devastated by his mother’s resignation. In her memoir Are You Tough Enough?
Now, it appears, her son is preparing his revenge.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/neil-gorsuch
Personal revenge, retribution by SCOTUS, ing America is ed
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Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Issue:
Whether the court should overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council,
or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly
but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not cons ute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-file...es-v-raimondo/
After destroying Chevron Deference, SCOTUS will move for coup de grace of the administrative state:
"non-delegation clause" has been violated and must be respected, killing the Executive branch
Congress -- which funds the Supreme Court and organized it by statute -- has no power to investigate SCOTUS, say Justice Thomas's billionaire pal's lawyers.
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-24-2023 at 10:04 PM.
The right wing scotus 6 consider, act like the supreme Court to be supreme among unequals.
No checks and balances apply
Rewriting the Clean Water Act
Bit of the surprise here, SCOTUS strikes down Alabama's racial gerrymander.
Allen v. Milligan
Knock on effects in LA and GA
I can think of one erstwhile poster here who argued that no right to vote exists in the US.
Looks like the 15th Amendment is still alive and well.
Article XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude—
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
at a minimum, this decision might be favorable to Dems' efforts to retake the House in 2024.
flipside is that staying cases against illegal maps probably gave the GOP their current House majority.
Roberts does actually seem to give a about objective reality to an extent. The GOP justices after and before not so much.
Kavanaugh joined the libs, in part.
That is encouraging.
That's twice in the last month or two now?
ing cheating is the only way they can win
I was going to ask how many times does the SCOTUS has to shoot itself in the foot to see what's going on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/s...-supreme-courtSuch trips would be unheard of for the vast majority of federal workers, who are generally barred from taking even modest gifts.
A: Why did a Sam Alito op-ed appear in the WSJ today?
concierge prebuttal
payment in kind perhaps, to a reliable unnamed source of the WSJ
defining habeas out of existence
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