Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has set his sights on eliminating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced which cases it would consider next and which it wouldn’t. Among those the court rejected was a case that challenged the authority of OSHA, which sets and enforces standards for health and safety in the workplace.
And Thomas, widely considered to be the most conservative justice on the already mostly conservative court, wasn’t happy.
In a dissent, he explained why he believed the high court should’ve taken the case: OSHA’s power, he argues, is unconstitutional.
Clarence Thomas is unconstitutional. By his own originalist logic, he is only 3/5 of a human and should not be married to a white woman.
Fuck Clarence Thomas.
He is a straight up real life Clayton BigsbyA puppet
“The agency claims authority to regulate everything from a power lawnmower’s design,” he wrote, “to the level of ‘contact between trainers and whales at SeaWorld.’”
I fail to see anything wrong with either thing like… is he just mad it is not the people who sell lawn mowers should decide what’s safe?? Please please please don’t tell me Americans are going to dip to this new level of cognitive dissonance
Coming soon: the freedom to be maimed by corporations cutting corners on dangerous equipment design and safety equipment provision.
Lawn darts are back on the menu boys
I miss lawn darts, but the ban made sense. Holy hell, people were stupid with those things.
It’s still illegal to resell them too. I see them pop up in reseller groups from time to time.
Not speaking to policy but law, he’s probably hinting that this is a violation of the non delegation doctrine.
I assume soon we will be getting rid of the weekend and the 40-hour work week.
We’re already letting children work jobs that maim and kill them again.
Of course! That’s what family values are all about! Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!
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Boy am I gonna miss being able to easily multiply by nine
That took me a second LOL Well done!
I don’t get it. Can you explain please?
There’s a hand / finger trick to multiply by nine, but it only works if you have all 10 of your fingers. If OSHA is eliminated, workplace accidents which could result in finger / hand loss would increase.
I think it’s about losing fingers and counting strategies.
Working in the chemical industry, this statement is horrifying.
Take a look for yourself:
https://m.youtube.com/user/USCSB
A fucking judge who sits on his ass all day, “interpreting” the constitution like he’s some fucking oracle, wouldn’t even begin to understand.
I did Asbestos removal for awhile years ago. I cannot imagine not having OSHA. The amount of crap companies get away with with OSHA around is already absurd.
I had no idea of this entity, but I work with enough similarly, highly nuanced public professionals that I recognize that the rapid and blind “immediately destroy all gubberment” approach will have widespread oh-holy-fuck consequenes if not just for the extensive brain vacuum potentially left in the wake of this type of growing mentality. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective.
I wanted to post this channel for a long list of reason, broken down in a forensic manner, as to why this is a bad idea, glad others were here, and thinking the same.
They won’t stop. By 2025 they will reinstate the crime of heresy. Mark my words.
I believe you
It’s a good thing NOBODY WHO WOULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT FROM THIS has given Thomas Gifts Bribes or ANYTHING to sway his Judgement!
✨ gratuities ✨
Yeah they’re okay, just sometimes, as a little treat.
Can we make people who vote for lack of safety regulations work affected jobs for about a year or so? How’d you think they’d vote then?
No, they make the rules and would never agree to that, just like they always vote to give themselves raises and amazing healthcare while fighting to prevent the rest of us from getting adequate pay or healthcare.
Wow I love reading about these wacky sovcits. They always say the most silly things.
Wait, what? WHO said that? Justice of which court?
This has always been a Republican dream. If people are not dying on the job are they really working hard enough?
He’s always been “that conservative” judge.
WTF does someone have on him that he has been so emboldened the last few years?
This isn’t even blackmail, he’s just a pathetic little bitch. If not for these interesting times, I might feel sorry for him
He was inspired by Trump’s popularity showing that Americans are more easily manipulated than he ever dreamed.
They should eliminate him
Right out a fuckin window.
TLDR: It may be unconstitutional in his opinion because of the Non Delegation Doctrine stemming from:
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress…
Basically Congress can’t just go and let the Executive branch do their job. The Executive can’t make new laws only enforce the existing ones.
This is my rub with Clarence in general. On paper I agree with a very hardline reading of the constitution cause what else is it there for. We’re far too allergic to making constitutional amendments and laws and have built up a house of cards that gets toppled every time the administration changes.
However, practically speaking, there’s too many actual lives depending on supreme court decisions and delegated regulations to wait for congress to do something about it (if they aren’t stalled outright by lobbying and party opposition). If the overturning of such decisions is meant to light a fire under the ass of the legislative branch, it operates much too slowly to protect the vulnerable people who suffer in the interim. Delegation is the only reason we have a (relatively) safe and clean place to live.
There needs to be a statute of limitations on how long the Supreme Court can reverse things. They can’t change things 40 years after the fact when entire agencies have been built and society has restructured around the previous ruling.
The problem with that is Korematsu v. US was decided in 1944 and is technically still the law as no subsequent cases have come up to overturn it.
The two party system has resulted in grid lock on anything pf actual value like codifying in law the things the SCOTUS has been rolling back. We’ve rested on our laurels for it to all be undone.
Is he sure he wants that if Trump gets into power?
He’s been writing about it long before 2016 so I’d imagine so.
Yeah, but that was before Project 2025.
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He usually cares about what the people who bribe him want and they want Project 2025.
We do have a problem with executive power creep so like there’s a world where I’m on board for non-delegation but there just is a reality that some questions are too small, detailed, and nuanced to expect a new bill out of Congress each time.
So like setting new tariffs, should be a congressional action and it was improperly delegated. Determining whether a new ladder is safe for workers, can be delegated.
Judges shouldn’t have agendas, just dockets.
Anyone notice that the prez can have this guy killed with no consequences?
