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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1405474
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1405474
Remember, five justices have been appointed by losers in the popular vote.
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Yes, the losers’ winners on the Supreme Court would definitely like to find avenues to reduce the ability of EPA to tighten environmental rules and even invalidate rules that we have been operating under for some time. Maybe make it possible for states selectively to declare EPA regulations void, as if air quality issues could be limited by state, as if pollution did not cross state lines.
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Too much regulation!
You know what people have to go through before a regulation is passed? The years, sometimes deaths.
Utter crap from paid for religious zealots.
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Yet while the currently reactionary court is on the lookout for ways to reverse 100 years of progress, the people who refuse to accept the outcome of the last presidential election are working hard to make the Supreme Court’s influence over politics unnecessary. Instead they would prefer complete control over elected officials and offices.
IANAL but I’m confidant that our current scotus will rule however our corporate super-citizens wish them to rule. And our current scotus will ignore any precedent necessary to ‘justify’ their ideological decision.
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" The EPA now says that it has no intention to proceed with either of these rules, and plans to issue an entirely new set of regulations. Under such circumstances, courts usually wait for agencies to finalize their position before stepping in"
I thought right wingers said courts were supposed to interpret laws, not make them. This is just another in a long line of cases where they are imposing their ideological preferences in law simply because they have the raw power to do so.
The current Supreme Court is a right wing reactionary activist court.
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The military just may have to tell these mooks that it’s a matter of National Security.
We can expect the Court’s right wingers to, once again, forcibly impose the agenda of the GOP, regardless of precedent, statutory law, and the preferences of the American people.
Count on it.
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Yes, yes, but what about her emails!!!
Neil Gorsuch’s mother Anne was EPA head for Reagan. Her atrociously retrograde rulings against good environmental stewardship led Reagan to fire her. She cut the EPA’s budget by 22% and was so unpopular that Reagan felt compelled to get rid of her.
Her son? I suspect that there would be enormous public pressure against him if he tried his mother’s shenanigans.
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The more people are aware of this, the better.
I think SCOTUS is going to have a lot of protesters outside this summer between women’s reproductive issues, voting rights and environmental issues and whatever else they overreach on. Whether they’re in session or not.
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It used to be “Dilution is the Solution for Pollution”.
Soon it will be “Revolution is the Solution for Pollution”.
they can isolate themselves from a lot of their decisions, but they can’t isolate themselves from the atmosphere.
They don’t know that.