Elena Kagan Is Horrified by What the Supreme Court Just Did. You Should Be Too.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court-john-roberts-chevron-disaster.html
Elena Kagan Is Horrified by What the Supreme Court Just Did. You Should Be Too.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court-john-roberts-chevron-disaster.html
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The final paragraph says it best (or worst):
“Take a step back and consider how radically—and underhandedly—this Supreme Court is reshaping modern governance. By killing Chevron just one day after undermining agencies’ enforcement actions, the conservative supermajority is kneecapping the administrative state. It shares that goal with Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the far-right activists behind Project 2025. The Supreme Court is imposing a MAGA vision of the law on America, giving unelected judges near-unfathomable power to override the policy choices of the democratic branches. Through rulings dressed up in legalese, it strips power from the citizens and their elected representatives, establishing a monarchical judiciary with no known limits on its own authority. Anyone who cares about government of the people, by the people, for the people should share Kagan’s horror at what this court has wrought and what comes next.”
We need specific examples of what regulations they will first start to target and strike down?
I’ve been horrified by the corrupt court for years.
THIS is the most terrible and damaging Supreme Court in the existence of the United States. Truly world-destroying. It will go down in infamy as such.
All is lost 🙁
If she cares so deeply about results on the court then she should try convincing Sotomayor to resign while Biden is still in office.
The fact that it’s even up for discussion whether she should resign is insane. She’s over 70, needs all kinds of medical support when traveling, and Trump is now very likely to take office in January. She has been a justice for 15 years! That’s over 3 presidential terms! Why is she owed any deference when the country’s future is at stake?
If Kagan is truly horrified, the single most important thing she can do between now and November is help get a young liberal justice confirmed to make certain the conservative majority doesn’t grow even more.
If the Supreme Court is openly corrupt, US law no longer has any value or basis in the will of the American people. Laws will change at the whim of the wealthy few, and the government will probably collapse.
Gorsuch couldn’t even summon the necessary brain power to distinguish nitrous oxide from nitric oxide. I can hardly wait for them to pontificate on PFOAs.
*Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in Loper Bright declared that Chevron is unmoored to any law, “fundamentally misguided” and “unworkable,” creating an “eternal fog of uncertainty.”*
WTF do they think they just replaced it with? These conservative justices are ignorant, petulant children.
The solution is for Congress to pass a law that mirrors *Chevron* in defining the regulatory powers of government agencies. Or better still a Constitutional Amendment. But of course, our unrepresentative Senate will never allow that to happen.
Voter apathy got you here, America. Please get out and VOTE in November. There’s a high risk that you’ll never again be allowed to if you don’t.
I don’t recognize this court or any of it’s ruling’s legitimate
So we got to the mass shooting stage of the SCOTUS rulings.
“The SCOTUS has made a decision that will destroy decades of progress and cause untold suffering.”
“Which one? There’s been like three this week.”
Conservatives in 2025: ‘Looking back, there were warnings….’
And just imagine if Trump gets in again. His Justice
Department will manufacture cases to bring to the Supreme Court to bypass laws and/or to bypass the legislative branch – even if they pass laws!
As an attorney, this decision will harm more Americans than overturning *Roe v Wade*. While everyone wants medical autonomy the amount of people who actually seek abortions are far less than the amount who breathe air, eat food, drive vehicles, attend school, are employed, pay taxes, etc.
Which on of the “Boxes of Liberty” are we on again?
I can no longer be the only person seeing the country change hands, right? Like you all see this is not a democracy and two old dudes is not a CHOICE just like all our other fake choices. This was done by enemies of the United States from within to overthrow the West. Trump, Bannon and SCOTUS are enemies of the state.
Honestly, if you CANT see that then there is no way to have political discourse with either side. GOP are zombies and Democrats refuse to recognize we’re being taken over. We are meant to give up. The same people stay in power eternally. This is not a democracy and there is no way to talk about it with people who just chant ‘vote’, because they CLEARLY don’t get it. They’re just drinking the Kool-Aid.
Do something about it, or STFU. You’re not going to brow beat a bunch of religious and politically motivated zealots. Expand the SCOTUS or fuck off with the virtue signaling.
Wild Wild West is coming back y’all, laws are no big deal anymore. Children buying guns? Why not? Public lynchings? Sure. Use national guard to round up the non followers? You betcha! Oh boy am I excited for the future. (Sarcasm)
I wonder how much it cost per judge to kill chevron.
When I served in Afghanistan and learned about the Taliban supreme Shura my first thought was “so they’re the talibans Supreme Court?”. Now I release the issue with a body like this.
The democrats need to overwhelm this Supreme Court to save the US
What is she gonna do about it?
What does this mean for existing rules? Would it require a lawsuit on behalf of a regulated entity to reduce administrative overreach ?
We are horrified, but the people we sent to Washington to expand the Supreme Court are sitting on their hands
Mitch McConnell is an evil mofo who deserves prison.
Don’t tell me what to do
Other than their crazy rulings, the willingness to ignore precedent is truly scary. That can only lead to more of the same if the balance should shift.
Good lord slates website is a disaster
think back to how the Obama Administration was basically kneecapped by every policy decision being sued and held up in court through national injunctions.
they’ve decided not just the controversial policy decisions will get held up in court, every policy decision can now be challenged in court.
If our government were functioning as intended, we would have had an Amendment created and passed within days of Chevron being undone to restore what was taken away.
But then again, we’ve had decades for that to get done.