https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-suprem ... dium=email
Interesting article and probably likely considering how quickly we jump from one outrage to a next and even worse outrageous right-wing next step to destroy everything.
This make Roe v Wade an almost petty concern.
"The ”novel” argument that a group of Republican states’ Attorneys General are advancing, and Neil Gorsuch has already endorsed in a lower court ruling before he was placed on the Court, is breathtaking. It could end most protective government regulations in America.
They’re arguing, essentially, that the EPA (and any other regulatory agency) can’t do all the steps listed above: instead, that detailed and time-consuming analysis of a problem, developing specific solutions, and writing specific rules has to be done, they say, by Congress itself.
In other words, Gorsuch says, Congress itself — not the EPA — must evaluate the science and then write the rules.
As if Congress had the time and staff. As if Congress was stocked with scientific experts. As if Republicans in the pockets of fossil fuel billionaires wouldn’t block any congressional action even if it did.
Back in 1984 the
Supreme Court concluded, in their Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council decision, that it only made sense that Congress would set goals and regulatory agencies, stocked chock-a-block with scientists and experts, would do the science and write the rules.
That doctrine is called “the Chevron deference.” Courts should defer, SCOTUS said, to the regulatory agencies, since they’re the ones with the expertise.
But Gorsuch has argued, essentially, that making rules — even the detailed scientific minutiae of rules — should be done by Congress instead of the EPA, and that agencies like the EPA should simply play the role of cops on the beat, enforcing those rules.
He wants to overturn Chevron v NRDC."
"My bet is that if they’re going to do this (the New York Times this week is speculating it’s probable) in the West Virginia v EPA ruling that’s expected any day, and that they’ll drop the decision on the same day as their abortion or gun rulings, guaranteeing that most people won’t hear a thing about it.
Keep an eye on this decision: it’ll probably get no meaningful media coverage because it seems so bureaucratic and administrative (and may be buried in abortion or gun control news).
In truth, if it goes as is now expected, it will evoke the last lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men:
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star. …
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
The environment may be the immediate and obvious impact, but there's also labor, banking, Wall St, healthcare, transportation, energy, the military, immigration . . .