There is some truth to that.
There is no way in hell Congress, even if it were functional, could ever perform the duties it has delegated to the agencies.
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The GOP Court does not represent the US, just their party.`
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Crimeny! Might as well just go right ahead and say that you must be a land-owning, white, male at least 21 years old to vote or even be a citizen. The rest of us are just chattel.
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Roberts sided with the liberals solely to avoid the appearance of an extremist supermajority running roughshod over the 20th century. A 5-4 decision appears more “reasonable” to the goobers who only get their news from the teevee.
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Anything is possible, but it’ll take a ginormous amount of judicial prestidigation (whaevs) to blow up the Common Cause verdict.
I daresay he’s not fooling anyone … he’s actually the worst of the bunch with his “balls and strikes,” bullshit. At least the others are honest in their bigotry.
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I daresay say he’s not fooling anyone either, and I just did up there.
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As did his predecessor, William Rehnquist, whose most notable action before being named to the Supreme Court was being detained for physically trying to stop a Black women from voting just after the Voting Rights act was passed into law.
While abortion has always been the excuse, in fact voting rights has always been the reason for appointing Republican but not conservative judges.
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I’m guessing both-siderism. “Why bother to vote, they are all the same.”
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Okey doke. Thanks for pointing it out.
The questions aren’t around the things it has delegated, they’re all around the things that haven’t explicitly been delegated.
Agencies are supposed to have explicit statutory authority to do something. Merely not being blocked from doing a given thing isn’t enough.
For example, DoD can’t just go out and decide to buy 15 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers if Statute doesn’t say they can only have 11. They need explicit authority to go buy the other 4.
What’s happened in recent decades is that (yes, big-ticket things like carriers aside) agencies have increasingly danced within that gray area, and coming back with decisions that say that they’re cool to move ahead even though there’s a lack of explicit authorization.
Very recent case in point: Medicare coverage of at-home covid tests. Medicare has a statutory block which requires that any tests be medically-necessary. Medical necessity is determined by a doctor ordering a test based on symptoms-- for any condition.
Congress should fix that with a simple piece of legislation that would authorize covid tests without a requirement for medical necessity.
Since they’re too busy picking their noses, CMS is moving ahead to use the rule-making process to just declare that they’re paying for the tests, even though it’s very clear that they lack the statutory authority to do so.
We’ve got a really dysfunctional government.
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A 5-4 decision reaffirms to that same uninformed clan that Roberts is a RINO who is not loyal to the party.
“I’m for impeaching the Chief Justice for lying to all of us about his support of the Constitution. He is responsible for Robertscare and now he is angling for vast numbers of illegal residents to help Dems hold Congress. Enough Deception from GOP judges on the Constitution,” American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp tweeted shortly after the Thursday ruling.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/conservatives-blast-roberts-1386124
That was June 27, 2019.
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Robed deplorables.
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This SCOTUS is a joke. They are going to blow this country up with their violent disregard of judicial precedent and common decency.
We need a Voters Rights Act from Congress now more than ever.
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They are beneath contempt with their lies about “honoring precedent” at their goddamned hearings. I despise them.
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#pantsuitpower
We were so determined, so excited, and so sure.
I still get misty eyed re-watching this video.
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Why? Pretty clear that anything passed would be blocked in an emergency 5-4 late-night ruling within 24 hours of passing.
Need to pass the court-packing bill first, everything else is secondary and even counter-productive at this point.
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And meanwhile, back at Mar-A-Lago, from WaPo: The recovery of 15 boxes from Trump’s Florida resort, including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, underscores the previous administration’s cavalier handling of presidential records.
“Cavalier.” If Michelle Obama had “stolen” a piece of Kleenex, they’d have held hearings.
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OT
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They are on the right, so they are right, what don’t we understand about right?
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