The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.

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    8 months ago

    Am I crazy for thinking that this is actually worse than the court banning abortion?

    At least with abortion bans, people could see the direct impact and that could motivate voter turnout. This will be a decision that many voters won’t easily recognize as the cause of the corruption and injustice they will be feeling. A lot of people are going to get hurt, and they’re not going to know the real reason behind it.

    The GOP finally got what they’ve been trying to get since the 80s. Get ready for The Jungle 2.0.

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      The GOP finally got what they’ve been trying to get since the 80s. Get ready for The Jungle 2.0.

      The GOP wanted Chevron in the 80s. It was a way of tweaking laws passed already without legislative resistance.

      In 1981, after Ronald Reagan became President, the EPA changed its interpretation of the word “source” in the law to mean only an entire plant or factory, not an individual building or machine.

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    Because letting jackasses in congress set regulatory precedent on things they know jack shit about has always worked out

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      Things seemed to be going alright before the Reagan wanted to clarify the language of the Clean Air Act. The Congressional Research Services kinda cover this issue already.

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    8 months ago

    You know, eventually, after we’ve seen enough of this shit, I feel like there’s a point we have to ask…will no one rid us of these turbulent justices?

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    What gets me is part of Project 2025 is planning on reclassifying all of the workers in the exact agencies this affects with sycophants and yes-men. As I understand it, the entire idea of that move is that Trump and the GOP can bypass Congress and the courts and essentially rule however they want.

    Doesn’t this decision run counter to that? Instead of allowing the regulatory bodies that are going to be sycophantilized to just run shot over their domains, now the risk having a non-sympathetic judge or an unfavorable swing in voting in Congress?

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    8 months ago

    thus they can use the do-nothing republican fascists to shoot things down. fuck this goddamn country

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      No it was pure corruption the way it was. Congress is supposed to write the laws, and the Judicial Branch is supposed to interpret those laws, not the unelected federal bureaucracy.