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John Roberts Just Delivered a Big Gift to Billionaires
Dahlia Lithwick: It's a big win for the folks who didn't want to be regulated and who are now going to be able to write their own rules.
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Doesn't it seem more and more that the Republican party, from the Supreme Court justices all the way down to the average voters, is onboard with this country becoming a billionaire-controlled oligarchy rather than a republic/democracy?
#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-19 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6
No, no.... Trump is for the werkin' man!
Ax' any Trumper.
#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-19 02:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Billionaires should be careful what they wish for.
Both Putin and Xi have arrested and killed many of their nation's billionaires.
Giving unfettered power to a mad man will destroy this nation.
Cutting taxes will destroy this nation.
Republicans really are the dumbest, most shortsighted people.
#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-19 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6
As if regulatory capture of agencies wasn't already a thing.
This decision is going to be a long term positive. Chevron was NEVER a good idea, and it was NEVER good lawmaking.
The executive branch should NOT be able to create crimes. And that's exactly what Chevron did - enabled executive branch agencies to create new criminal offenses that the courts decided were just as real as actual laws voted on by congress. Chevron was ultimately anti-democratic, and pro-regulatory capture.
These agencies have for decades been controlled by the businesses they regulate. There has been a revolving door between the C-levels and agency heads.
Loper Bright is at worst billionaire-neutral, and at best has the potential to hand power back to the people.
Given how badly a truly bad president can screw things up, shouldn't we ALL be interested in making the executive branch weaker?
Loper Bright doesn't give power to the courts. It gives it back to congress where the power to write laws should reside (at least until we can get direct democracy at the federal level).
#4 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-07-19 02:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
And I bet the court gets some big gifts in return!
Excuse me.
Gratuities.
#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-19 04:06 PM | Reply
We should have realized sooner that Trump put His SC Justices on Commission... they get to keep whatever grift they get, apparently.
Tax free, too!
#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-19 04:16 PM | Reply
Corky ... According to the new Trumpspeak definition bribes and grifts are now referred to as *"gratuities" .
*Offer not valid for Democrats.
#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-19 04:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
The Justices work for Tips? Like overpaid shine boys? The Oligarchs are already in charge.
Life has truly come full circle. The most powerful individuals in America are tipped service workers for billionaires.
We are already living in an Oligarchy.
Everyday Russians don't miss their Oligarchs, most of whom were imprisoned by Putin and their assets confiscated and re-nationalized.
With Great Public Approval.
Trump might try the same thing.
Under Putin's expert Tutilige.
#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-07-19 07:26 PM | Reply
This country has a tendency for revolution. About time. Apparently AFatPoofter never heard of the Robber Barons.
#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-20 02:24 PM | Reply
"Oligarchs, most of whom were imprisoned by Putin"
You really are a ------- idiot.
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-20 02:25 PM | Reply
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