Supreme Greed

Before we get into today's post about how the Supreme Court overturned it's ruling in the 1984 case of Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council on Friday, a brief word about the Supreme Court's fuckery on Monday.

The Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump has immunity for stuff he did while President.  

Sorry, I don't believe that sentence fully conveys my feelings on this subject.

Let's try again.

The god damn Supreme Court fucking ruled that god damn Donald fucking Trump has fucking immunity for shit he did while god damn President.  

Once more, I feel I am coming up short in expressing my feelings on this subject.

Let me try again.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Anyway...

Here is the post that I originally wrote for today where in we see how the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday pushes government of the people that much closer to perishing from the face of the Earth.

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While everyone was in a tizzy of terror in the aftermath of Thursday's Biden-Trump Debate (which is still resonating a week later; OMG! Biden's a doddering old man!), no one was paying attention on Friday when the Supreme Court overturned another long standing ruling with dramatic implications almost on par with their over turn of Roe V. Wade.  

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned its 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. 

What this does is undermines the authority of government agencies to regulate virtually anything:

• water and air quality  
• drug safety
• labor practices
• food safety
• discrimination   
• artificial intelligence 
• broadcasting 
• online communication platforms  

Almost anything that can affect the quality of life for the average American citizen has been affected by this ruling. 

So what exactly did Chevron do? 

Basically, when Congress passes a law, there are regulatory agencies that can set standards for making sure the requirements of that law are met fairly and equitably as well as establish penalties  for those who do not follow the law. 

Basically corporations put up a fight and said who the hell are these agencies to tell us what to do. 

The Chevron ruling in 1984 basically said regulatory agencies can do what they want but corporations were free to push back if any requirements were unreasonable.  

Corporate America did not like that.  

Conservatives did not like that. 

And they have been pushing for a way for 4 decades to get Chevron overturned. 

The Constitution says that the Legislative branch makes laws, the Executive branch executes those laws and the Judicial branch interprets those laws. What had Conservative's panties in a knot was the regulatory agencies were usurping the Judiciary's role of interpreting laws.  

In 1984, the Supreme Court said no, that is NOT what is happening here.

In 2024, the Supreme Court rules that is EXACTLY what is happening here.  

Basically, it's those goddamn literalests on the Supreme Court taking point here. ("Ain't nothing in the Constitution about no Environmental Protection blah blah blah!")   

Overturning Chevron means changing government from being proactive to make sure your water is clean, the food you eat is safe and you're not being fucking discriminated against to being reactive.  

Now it's up to you to sue in the courts that maybe your chicken nuggets have too much cardboard in them and it's up to a judge in a court of law to determine if that's true or not.  

You can imagine corporations love this because it means less money being spent on food inspections, air scrubbers on smoke stacks or paying fair wages to everybody unless somebody happens to sue and given how time intensive and expensive that is, how often will that happen and even then since the corporations have more money for more expensive lawyers, how will that be successful. 

Old model under Chevron: corporations have to do the right thing immediately.

New model with Chevron: companies can avoid the right thing as long as they can until their luck runs out.  

So it's a big ol' "Fuck you!" to American citizens and another win for corporate America.

And under a 2nd Trump presidency, this will only get worse. 

Which is why we need to vote for the doddering old man. 

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Tomorrow is the 4th of July, the birthday of the good ol' USA!  

All that is born is destined to one day die.

Are we close to the death of the great American experiment?

How the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday runs counter to what we demanded on July 4th, 1776. 

I will rant about it tomorrow.