9 is a perfectly fine number. We just need to pass the SCRAP Act to bribe them all into retirement.
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What fatuous twaddle.
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So a response to Covid would require passage of Law by Congress before anything could be done?
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What a steaming pantload.
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I have a plan: There are plenty of government regulations (thanks to decades of regulatory capture) that oligarchs and megacorporations depend on government to enforce, from various forms of intellectual property to health and safety safe harbors to whatever. Announce that out of an abundance of caution agencies will not be enforcing those regulations either, e.g. not seizing any more potentially unlicensed goods arriving at US ports, not shielding food producers from liability based on inspections etc, until the supreme court has voted on each and every item in the federal register individually.
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Think a combination of plutocracy (government of, by and for the wealthy and their corporate interests) and Christian Nationalism.) and youâll have an idea of what they want.
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--A point of view which is not totally unbalanced....but close--
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Yes. Itâs probably even worse than your short summary. (37 year career as federal government lawyer).
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" Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Existentially Threatens Agency Power"
Just doing their part to fulfill Steve Bannonâs imperative: Deconstruction of the administrative state.
"âIf you look at these [Trump] Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason and that is the deconstruction, the way the progressive left runs, is if they canât get it passed, theyâre just gonna put in some sort of regulation in â in an agency,â Bannon said. âThatâs all gonna be deconstructed and I think that thatâs why this regulatory thing is so important.â
You forgot repeal of the Income Tax, 16th Amendment.
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âLiberty of contract.â Other wise known as the right to work your employees to death in the name of âfreedom.â
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/liberty-of-contract
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So, it turns out that when human colostomy bag Steve Bannon when on a rhapsody about the âdeconstruction of the administrative state,â that activated the sleeper cell we call the Supreme Court.
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They act like these regulations werenât fought every single step of the way, and only ended up passed because somebody died and somebody went broke.
They gave themselves a year of the Dobbs decision to die down, and then they are back on track. Your paid-for SCOTUS at work serving the very money they legislated into existence.
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This is by design. As soon as Mitch engineered a hard-right majority, the ultra-wealthy robber barons whoâve been funding that decades-long project began pursuing the legal cases that will provide the Court with the opportunity to implement hard-right policy.
When the frying pan reaches the right cooking temperature, you toss in the eggs.
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To paraphrase a current commercial, âThomas doesnât care.â
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search âWhy Did Jackson Recuse Herself?â here: https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justice-sit-out-high-stakes-case-1797660
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The right-wing legal world is passionately committed to weakening the administrative state, the parts of the government that are charged with regulating corporate polluters, protecting workersâ rights, dictating public health policy and more.
Iâm getting worried about legislators who have no medical training setting public health policies. Weâve seen in case after case that state legislators have flimsy grasp of anatomy and how womenâs bodies work, so why would members of Congress, even the ones who did go to medical school, be trusted with writing specific policy in any area concerning health or medicine?
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Using words like bureaucrats defines you. It makes it dispositively clear you have nothing of value to say and not a ounce of originality in your thinking.
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Howâs the Kool Aid? Is it sweet?
Go troll on some GOP platform.
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