In knocking down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, the right-wing Supreme Court majority does more than keep millions of American saddled with debt — it continues to shift enormous power away from Congress and the executive branch to itself.
But taking bribes is ok. Roberts is a real piece of work.
In a thinly veiled warning, he says that a “misperception” that such criticisms are “disparagement” rather than “heartfelt disagreement” would be “harmful to this institution and our country.”
Roberts sounds like a mob boss here. “I don’t mind if you disagree with my suggestions, Lennie, but if you go public it sure sounds like you are disrespecting me. And where there is disrespect, there will be consequences.”
In short: right-wingers hate humanity.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Administrative Law 101: the reason the regulatory agencies exist is that Congress has a limited capacity to enact laws with the specificity necessary to accomplish its broad goals. Can you imagine MTG and her cohort trying to set standards for permissible regulatory levels of hazardous pollutants in air or water? Or defining what “waters of the United States” should be regulated to protect drinking water drawn by wells from ground water?
And now we see the arrogation of this power by the Supreme Court, which consists of nine people, not a single one of whom is expert in any of the areas for which the agencies enact rules to protect our citizens, whether it be from pollution or predatory lenders or any other threat.
Stands and applauds Justice Kagan!
liberals have called out the Court’s appropriation of power.
Republican conservatives, read that carefully. That’s a bigger, more powerful government.
Except now, they’re putting power in the hands of unelected, cloistered bureaucrats without any expertise in the areas they’re making policy for. They listen to lawyers, then do what wealthy benefactors want.
The Court is going the wrong way.
Vote Democratic.
Where was the “major questions” disagreement when Trump’s Executive Order moved money from the Defense Department to build his “beautiful” wall?
Keep that caterpillar away from any tomato plants!!! Thst’s a Tomato Hornworm and they’re death to tomato plants because they’ll eat any green part. Leaf or stem. They’re Bad News in any garden. Just about anything green they go after.
I am just sorry that once again we have to rely of women of color to kick ass on our behalf. I am sorry that they have to be angry. I am not saying they shouldn’t be angry, or that it isn’t 100% justified. I am just sorry that they currently have to shoulder so much of the burden of that anger.
Republicans are the party of suing to take away your health insurance, suing to take away your housing, and now suing to make you pay more interest on loans you will never earn enough to repay.
The precedent would be for President Biden to ignore the ruling, refuse to collect the debt, and dare those rightist pricks to waste their breath impeaching him. I don’t want to be morally superior to Republicans; just numerically.
I so wish he would—let them scream.
“Shifting power back to Congress” by trampling on the plain intent of legislation as passed by Congress that established the agencies and gave them regulatory authority in the first place.
Took me a while to realize it is only a doctrine because they put that word at the end. Much like the independent state legislature theory. Or any number of other made up tosh from the bowels of whomever funds these wee pinched-faced groups.
Swollen with self righteousness. It is what they buy down the church for 10% pretax. They get to be superior to all other living beings, and the darker ones they get to mine for money.
The corrupt majority simply used the “despite the law allowing for it, and precedent should dictate here, however we don’t like it” clause in the Constitution.
Kind of a contra-eureka moment for me there …lol
There is no male on the Court espousing liberal principles of individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
I guess I’ve been in denial, but what an imbalance!
I kinda want a ‘Kagan’ wife beater with the word done out like ‘EVERLAST’.
Sweet. Get some gabagool.
