Today, the right-wing Justices on the Supreme Court stripped the
responsibility for interpreting ambiguous laws from hundreds of federal
agencies in the Executive Branch and instead gave that power to themselves
and the courts.
The New York Times reports, "The decision could lead to the elimination or
weakening of thousands of rules on the environment, health care, worker
protection, food and drug safety, telecommunications, the financial sector
and more…."
This titanic shift in power from the Executive Branch to the Judicial
Branch has been a top priority for giant corporations and the right-wing
billionaires that have showered millions of dollars of "gifts" on Justices
Thomas and Alito – and is still more evidence that this Supreme Court is
corrupt, faces a legitimacy crisis, and requires binding ethics reform.
John, nothing can be done to rein in this extreme Supreme Court
if we lose the Senate. If anything, it gets worse.
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The sweep of today’s ruling is almost unimaginable. In addition to calling
the decision a "a boon for banking lobbyists," The New York Times reports
on likely impacts:
"The oversight of food, drugs and tobacco is expected to be a target…
"Environmentalists fear the elimination of hundreds of E.P.A. rules aimed
at limiting air and water pollution, protecting people from toxic
chemicals and, especially, tackling climate change…
"Conservative Christian activists and lawyers are celebrating the decision
as a significant win for their ambitions to target medication abortion and
rights for transgender people…
"Complicate the ability of the Treasury Department and the Internal
Revenue Service to craft federal regulations that are central to President
Biden’s economic agenda…
"Make it harder for the government to enact workplace safety regulations
and enforce minimum wage and overtime rules….
"Affect how Medicare, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurance plans are
administered…"
This Supreme Court wants us to believe that George Washington and the
other founders of our country wanted today's kids to drink more polluted
water, today's workers to be hurt more on the job, and today's government
agencies to be hogtied from doing the jobs past Congresses and Presidents
gave them.
In her dissent, Justice Kagan disagrees, saying the conservative majority
"disdains restraint, and grasps for power," making "a laughingstock" of
precedent and producing "large-scale disruption" throughout the entire
government.
"In one fell swoop," Kagan continues, "the majority today gives itself
exclusive power over every open issue — no matter how expertise-driven or
policy-laden — involving the meaning of regulatory law. ... The majority
turns itself into the country’s administrative czar."
Democratic control of the Senate in 2024 is the only path forward to
address the corruption of this Supreme Court.
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