One of the most consequential decisions ever by the Court:
Democracy Now! (@democracynow) posted at 7:44 AM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
The Supreme Court’s overturning of “Chevron v. NRDC” is a “power grab,” says @ElieNYC.
“It’s taking power out of our hands, out of the democracy’s hands, and putting it in the hands of the court.” https://t.co/5itRJ6RVS9
(https://x.com/democracynow/status/1807757127986868393?t=YNB1eDSQwoJ1ITZAugBnMA&s=03)
Laurie Garrett had a great thread on the entire nightmare and power grab by this court:
Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
In 4 earth-shattering decisions this term, #SCOTUS gutted authority from all federal regulatory agencies. These are very radical decisions – essentially overturning all the sentiments of our nation’s founders debated in The Federalist Papers.
In this 🧵I’ll lay it out. https://t.co/adYVYTUWko
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887175914029427?t=RqCjcQM7YL3HSUSGBMtxzg&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
2/Today, w/Corner Post v Federal Reserve #SCOTUS decided that anybody can sue a fedl agcy, over anything, w/no statute of limitations.
Dissenting, Justice Jackson: “The majority throws caution to the wind & engages in…misguided reasoning about statutory limitations periods…” https://t.co/L2ZlTvtmEq
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887179584082293?t=GoF6o4TbTaNxknZxOqKAXg&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
3/Jackson: “The far-reaching results of the Court’s ruling in this case are staggering.”
“In one fell swoop, the Court has effectively eliminated any limitations period for APA lawsuits….This means that, from this day forward, administrative agencies can be sued in perpetuity https://t.co/nJ6i1CPIv6
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887184021934423?t=cDwtdTy-AIAGJfE8HK0jjA&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
4/In SEC v Jarkesy last week #SCOTUS ruled a fedl agcy (SEC) can’t decide whether regulations have been violated (here, equities fraud) – that must be adjudicated in the courts.
JUSTICE GORSUCH: “The Court decides a single issue: Whether the Securities & Exchange Commission’s use https://t.co/YVPRJARWsm
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887189038321790?t=o4aUSoUkKf9Rzg3mV1D0Rw&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
5/ Dissenting, Justice Sotomayor bemoans, “This Court’s repeated failure to appreciate that its decisions can threaten the separation of powers…The majority today upends longstanding precedent & the estab’ed practice of its coequal partners in our tripartite system of https://t.co/0WLmDTnvXS
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887192494109151?t=vJpXsN2e0SBU6Bd5pzRSpw&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
6/The power of fedl regulators was further diminished by the Court’s Ohio v EPA decision, destroying the agency’s ability to enforce “good neighbor” policies that control air pollution blowing from a state that generates the ill wind, into a cleaner state. By gutting that @EPA https://t.co/ARMUR21wOw
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887195682099417?t=SSqlQRLQ8A1og94csT_I0Q&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
7/Justice Barrett dissents: “Given the number of companies included & the timelines for review, the Court’s injunction leaves large swaths of upwind States free to keep contributing significantly to their downwind neighbors’ ozone problems for the next several years…”
MORE https://t.co/q6FvP6dsIz
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887199494721878?t=mGfVn8KxuCGoB8qBskbRig&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
8/The real shocker, with all-of-govt impact, is reversal of the 40-year-old doctrine established in “Chevron,” as the case is called — a landmark suit in which @NRDC sought to push the @EPA (during Reagan years) to enforce pollution standards (in this case, against @Chevron ) https://t.co/BDzHR6AR6t
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887202715607448?t=v5bm847gDSL-8RvQIrSzvQ&s=03)
Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
9/ For decades, “Chevron” has been the basis for how our Executive Branch operates. Agencies from USDA & EPA to FDA & SEC routinely draw from bodies of regulatory law to interpret which citizen or corporate actions violate standards.
But in Loper Bright v Sec. of Commerce https://t.co/pyyhXkumpn
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887207069528100?t=WpgJ_oreOo7dDBbrpmscDg&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
10/ #SCOTUS : “The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, & courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous; https://t.co/oN7xObkMGS
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887210961567777?t=5XqLSZnTJV1UwBlnZyX_TQ&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
11/ And in the Snyder v U.S. case #SCOTUS ruled that companies, organizations & individuals can give “gifts” to fedl officials, so long as the gift is delivered after the relevant federal govt employee has carried out the action.
https://t.co/UVrU6f6Blr
MORE https://t.co/K6g44nVUB6
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887214270877903?t=-rgcjdZtOnFK8s4gZTFf9w&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
12/ So, a hypothetical Big Oil lobbyist, might leave packets of info about college admissions on the desk of an @EPA official, knowing he has 4 kids coming of college age – a subtle hint that the company is willing to help out on tuition costs. That would be legal, so long as no https://t.co/32oHDImWvi
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887217383133388?t=V7_Wke7jrcshdjm6CKdA3Q&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
13/ In her dissent, Justice Jackson: “it seems that the majority itself harbors the belief it repeatedly ascribes to Congress: that regulation of gratuities is better left to state, local, and tribal governments, rather than the Federal Government.”
MORE https://t.co/whXTpxc7It
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887220856312293?t=x905cCurGuscUDVr0-0_DQ&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
14/ Taken together, these decisions give the Judiciary far more power over very aspect of governance – especially regulation. And do so, by eroding both the Executive Branch’s powers, & those of Congress.
In the case of Congress…
MORE https://t.co/wKyd0SqqYi
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887224324719031?t=je7a02w6ERVt0ipiwqMdsw&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
15/…#SCOTUS says that legislators must have sufficient time, foresight & grasp of all issues political leaders they address, so that they can stipulate every conceivable aspect of interpretation of laws passed by the House & Senate & nothing is left for later interpretation. https://t.co/xfy50XKMKb
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887227696914462?t=x0_vI2wecJ4yDQzItwKzRQ&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
16/ Failing to do so, as of these SCOTUS rulings, means judges will decide. Or the States. But not agency experts.
In real world cases, this means that politically-appointed judges with zero training in science would decide how @FDA regulates carcinogns; how USDA…
MORE https://t.co/vxbplIHMcE
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887231136551312?t=cJdb6RyY3pA8KJFCh8tZ9A&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
17/…decides what are safe practices for pesticides & antibiotics w/livestock; what safety standards FAA demands; whether NOAA can attribute a CAT5 hurricane to climate change; etc.
Across the US govt panels of technical expertise have made such decisions.
But not anymore.
MORE https://t.co/Onfm7guDj3
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887234034438487?t=aVz64X3bM1H_Y3I0-EhvbA&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
18/ The combined impact of these & other Roberts Court rulings is to make it possible for large corporations, employing armies of lawyers, to block, bribe or stall regulatory action executed by the Executive Branch.
Hello, pollution, unsafe drugs, fraud, stock manipulation… https://t.co/QnaWkzg4AW
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887236966265297?t=7mWEjq-RR3CSPAbtyNdRNA&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
19/If #DonaldTrump is elected, #SCOTUS has basically rolled out a red carpet. The fedl govt is weakened, some forms of bribery are ok, #Trump is immune from whatever constitutes “official actions”, & he can fulfill promises to “Drill, baby, drill!” w/out any pesky environmental https://t.co/vl87YhSE1a
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887240518897990?t=5obzBR34LTklu4jKTGLq8w&s=03)Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 4:21 PM on Mon, Jul 01, 2024:
20/The #January6th #insurrection may have failed, but the Judiciary Revolution, pushed for decades by Mitch McConnell, has won. Our Constitution, Bill of Rights & more than 200 yrs of legal precedents are getting overturned by 6 people, acting as a black-robed coup d’etat. As https://t.co/vTeF1pcmVo
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1807887243698200579?t=wQ_hVuL7PmFnlAQsg1CRZg&s=03)
I don’t believe it’s that complicated.
They can’t BOTH SIDES it…so, they’re going to try and ignore it.
Tiff4Mahogany_44
NATO MEMBER (@tiff4mahogany) posted at 1:11 PM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
I have a feeling the MSM doesn’t know how to cover this Epstein stuff.
And that’s why you guys should walk away.
It’s not an affair. It’s not sexual harassment. It’s pedophilia at worst & hebephilia at “best”.
It’s so horrible they can’t approach it.
MHO.
(https://x.com/tiff4mahogany/status/1808564286211440657?t=v-tPjo-hBnFnMFXvmh7cNQ&s=03)
Michigan GOP Watch (@MiMagaWatch) posted at 6:01 AM on Tue, Jul 02, 2024:
Remember when Maga was clamoring for the release of Epstein docs. They got really quiet when Trump appeared in the flight logs. More docs are being released and low and behold Trump appears in them too. https://t.co/Zoo5eqQ5na
(https://x.com/MiMagaWatch/status/1808093582449901720?s=03)
Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) posted at 0:38 PM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
🚨 BREAKING: President Biden says on conference call he is staying in:
President Biden: “I am running. I am the leader of the Democratic Party. No one is pushing me out. I’ve been knocked down before and counted out my whole life. When you get knocked down you get back up.”
👏 https://t.co/8RmKqoLCTz
(https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1808556024808288678?s=03)
THIS
Prashant (@prashofseattle) posted at 8:37 PM on Tue, Jul 02, 2024:
Man i don’t even see much Instagram posts on Palestine since last Thursday . It slowed down and now completely gone. It was all about Biden ? The lefties wanted Biden gone and didn’t give a shit about Palestine
(https://x.com/prashofseattle/status/1808314035341086975?t=N_Hd563Gf8TEqmotKt0QIg&s=03)
Reecie @BlackWomenViews (@ReecieColbert) posted at 9:36 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
The idea that the mainstream media has done anything but marginalize, erase & demean VP Kamala Harris for the past 5 yrs is absurd. They aren’t *waiting* to attack her they’ve been doing that, where have y’all been? Let’s not rewrite history like the media is propping her up.
(https://x.com/ReecieColbert/status/1808510038236889540?t=bR2J_2bBFdpeRZgO-_9Yuw&s=03)
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 8:30 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Smikle: Project 2025 is an agency-by-agency instruction booklet for Donald Trump if he were to ever get into office again. It is a 180-day plan designed as a steam roller so Donald Trump can do everything he wants to do on day one. Come January, if Donald Trump is president, our https://t.co/msIFDKI9O1
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1808493577921610183?t=HwjmOw_NJGn_Ejli-wpngQ&s=03)
BrooklynDad_Defiant!
(@mmpadellan) posted at 10:56 PM on Tue, Jul 02, 2024:
Imagine if news outlets like @CNN and @nytimes went after trump with the same kind of breathless fervor that they’ve been going after President Biden with, the polls would be very different.
It’s almost like they want trump back in office, because that fear cocktail drives up their views and clicks.
Their shameless bullshit started long before the debate, and continues unabated. Call them out on it.
They did the SAME shit to Hillary Clinton in 2016, and it’s absolutely sickening. #BoycottCNN
(https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/1808349070139797584?t=BU46W-cXGK_k3ZTOGhvyjg&s=03)
Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) posted at 8:16 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Project 2025 is the MAGA movement’s plan to consolidate power under a re-elected Trump and exert more control over everyday Americans’ lives.
Think I’m exaggerating? Read it for yourself.
https://t.co/N4G4FOqUXK https://t.co/iFa5GtZeIv
(https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1808489963501060542?t=bQ2PcK3RacjJEA9FDr46_A&s=03)
Brian MD🇮🇱 (@bone00afide) posted at 8:11 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Epstein files: “Donald Trump likes sex with 14-year-old girls.”
Media: “Biden should drop out of the race for the good of the country.”
(https://x.com/bone00afide/status/1808488847904248148?t=Jmq4BXSspyvBZdDq1QvSqQ&s=03)
nope, won’t beg silly ass progressives for votes (@reesetheone1) posted at 8:22 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
About project 2025:
If it keeps minorities in their place or hurts minorities more, white folks don’t care about it.
I’m being honest.
Folks on this app need stop whining about the press (we saw this movie in 2015-16) and be ready to vote.
(https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/1808491425144692823?t=senmrhhQ-_mGB2jirAVtQw&s=03)
Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) posted at 7:37 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl with Epstein and the American media doesn’t give a shit.
(https://x.com/MattMurph24/status/1808480229918114150?t=ISagHtOEa77t6MSU4Owotg&s=03)
Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) posted at 5:56 PM on Tue, Jul 02, 2024:
Roberts grounds the ill-reasoned immunity decision on separation of powers concerns, but the Court is forbidding the current executive branch from prosecuting the former executive branch. That is NOT a separation of powers issue at all. It was a political policy decision.
(https://x.com/AWeissmann_/status/1808273634424692750?t=veB31aHOXKE7_4ggY2BpRw&s=03)
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) posted at 4:56 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
The Post and The Times go out of their way to give space to more people to call for Biden’s head. Do they ever give space to anyone to call for Trump to drop out? No. Do they give balanced opportunity to those who back Biden? No. The agenda is clear. https://t.co/DIe8CA2QdX
(https://x.com/jeffjarvis/status/1808439698865479818?t=UQxDTWjdgNzD4Bs4Q3-PhA&s=03)
Yes, I keep on posting and retweeting it everytime it comes across my feed.
I don’t have a large following, but, I am going to continue to amplify this.
Because, it needed to be said, and he said it perfectly to those clowns.
The Right-Wing SCOTUS That Bernie Built (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 7:15 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
The looks on the anchors’ faces reveal that they’re in on the psy-op and got caught being complicit.
And yes, at the end, both producers behind the scenes and the reporters themselves wanted this guest gone, and got him gone, fast.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1808474736747233626?t=pJ-MtQtMWmDc2IselACZDg&s=03)
Just Peachy
@PeachyInNJ
Tim Ryan wanted Nancy Pelosi out.
Tim Ryan was wrong.
Tim Ryan distanced himself from Biden in his Senate bid.
Tim Ryan lost to JD Vance.
Now Tim Ryan thinks Biden should get out of the race.
Tim Ryan has bad political instincts. Why would anyone listen to him?
https://x.com/PeachyInNJ/status/1808464397402091854
Tim
@trouble_man90
There’s a big tell in the media’s hysteria if you pay attention. We know the media doesn’t actually care about saving democracy from trump and republicans and fascism, so now ask yourself why are they pretending to be afraid that Biden won’t be able to fend off a “threat” that they are not actually scared of???? Think about it
6:47 PM · Jul 2, 2024
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1808286528000647269
TELL IT
Democratic “insiders” don’t give the President advice through the media. They speak directly to him or to the people in his immediate circle. Anyone you see publicly calling on the President to step down is not close to him and does not have his ear.
Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) posted at 7:58 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Lost among the SCOTUS drama was its decision in Snyder, allowing public officials to accept corrupt payoffs so long as they occur AFTER the official act. Justice Jackson’s dissent points out the absurdity of that decision. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. https://t.co/KWXiIuXOrA
(https://x.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1808485563810402349?t=2oEzxYfATLmpUPbchOC7OA&s=03)
Will Stancil (@whstancil) posted at 9:26 AM on Tue, Jul 02, 2024:
You have to love how Axios’s plain language summary of Trump’s platform is “He’ll set up concentration camps and jail his political enemies” – literally fascism and tyranny – but somehow this all gets sidelined in our day-to-day discourse https://t.co/w77xsRWKfA
(https://x.com/whstancil/status/1808145183067820115?t=6nzNTRIGSpqir-R36GZF2A&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 7:55 AM on Wed, Jul 03, 2024:
Sulzberger is pissed Biden never gave the Paper of Record a one-on-one interview. The obsession w/Biden’s age predated the debate but it’s gone into overdrive since. That, combined with NYT’s belief that Trump is better for their business model, explains everything.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1808484740078445009?t=of0NbPy4QqAK5c1mpxTPcQ&s=03)
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