You are too kind to Alito.
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Yep and I am sure that the founders intended the US to be run by the court./s
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EXPAND THE SCOTUS TO 13
This is unacceptable. Humans are marching toward extinction. There’s no going back on Sea Level Rise or Global Average Temperature. Climate can transition suddenly into a much warmer state.
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The Republican Cult Supreme Court Inc doesn’t give a shit about our ecosystem or the survival of the human species. These right wing religious (?) Corporate Judges are operating out of a delusional coma. The new IPCC Climate Warning should wake up even those dead judges.
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No, Ginny has already told them to dismiss the report, unread.
This court has as much concern about settled law as Putin does territorial borders.
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dramatically limit the agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Courts and corporations do not own the atmosphere.
Thanks to legislative footdragging, the US is about a third of the way it should be in shifting the renewables, so yes, pathetic. But the answer is not saying it is hopeless. Finland, for example, crossed the 50% mark last year.
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So I’ve got the same standing question that Sotomayor raised: is this also the end of the “cases and controversies” principle? Because if so it seems to mean that as long as someone the Gang of Six likes asks nicely, the court will be able to insert themselves into whatever issues they damn please, whenever they please.
(Which is also “ironic” because one of the things the conservative court has been doing is limiting standing when it doesn’t like someone or their case.)
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The natural and thus “originalist” forces of the Universe by which the Earth was created have been pushed by man’s brilliance at harnessing and abusing fuels to the point of catastrophic climate change. It is almost certainly too late to reverse these climate results as we all know on this site. This is the unnoticed behemoth in the room. That just astounds me.
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But, but, but, that would make the Federal government bogged down and unable to function!
Including when Putin launches nukes at us.
That’s some genius plan the goppers got. I think they may have overlooked a few details.
Appropriate $100 million to bribe them into retirement. Offer expires July 4.
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Who needs clean air anyway? Just democrats cuz Goobers do fine on sulfur dioxide. It makes the voice very low and manly
As we continue to face a complex and disintegrating world, it is comforting to know that at least we have the GOP making “efforts” to address the important things.
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We’re told that the Constitution is not a suicide pact, but this Supreme Court has already voted once (on vaccine/testing mandates) that it is. I expect they’ll do it again on global warming.
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Once again we are in agreement. What is specifically laid down in the Constitution can easily be distinguished from that which is unclear or ambiguous. As the document is the product of compromise, I like that it is flexible in some aspects. “Compromise”; a word which the GQP thinks is defined as “Our way or the highway.”
The distinction I am drawing is that a term is “ambiguous” when it is is susceptible to two or more reasonable interpretations. “Due Process” and “Equal Protection” aren’t just susceptible to different interpretations – they’re wholly undefined. So the original intent of the people who enacted those amendments wasn’t to delineate any specific set of rights. The original intent was to establish broad constitutional principles of fundamental fairness and equality, and to leave the details up to us.
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Gotchya. My opinion is that the document is a living thing, not a frozen corpse. (Pardon the metaphor.)
It’s neither living nor frozen in time. Like, we’re not interpreting away the requirement that the president be chosen by the electoral college. But in many respects, it was designed to give us a great deal of flexibility in how we choose to carry out its many broad declarations or rights and authorities.
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