Greg Stohr (@GregStohr)
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BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to consider limiting EPA's authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, will hear appeals from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states

A reporter discusses it...

There is a very real chance that the Supreme Court will soon prohibit the EPA from limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. This is a horrifying grant.

To be clear: The Supreme Court may not only deny the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, but also prohibit Congress from delegating that authority to the EPA in the first place.

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  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The dems have until December 10th to kill the filibuster (or make a moronic carve out in it) to protect voting. That's the last day congress is in session this year. It's 42 days away. And - of course - congress has lots of vacation days before that. Each day we get closer to that day - I become more convinced Biden and the democrats will not do a fucking thing on a federal level to protect voting and to protect our electoral system. Right now I give it a ~1/1,000 chance the dems will take action. That might be insanely optimistic. Two weeks from now - a 1/10,000 chance. Four weeks from now - my guess will be effectively zero.

    If the dems don't protect voting - it won't only be the GOP justices on the supreme court attacking everything the GOP doesn't like. It will be the entire right-wing as the GOP starts to take a stranglehold on the red state voting and federal elections in those states. Other GOP will join in: the federal GOP judges, the GOP judges on state courts, the GOP statehouses and the likely the GOP president and the GOP congress taking a chainsaw to all "democrat" related spending and laws that do stuff like regulate the amount of pollution in the air and how much arsenic should be allowed in canned food.

    I'm not a lawyer and I have no idea what what they can do legally. But that hardly matters. They'll totally control everything so they'll simply change the laws or sort of ignore them to drown the federal government in a bathtub. And they'll gleefully do that in the states they control too.

    The future looks black as night to me. Yet Biden and the DC dem's plan is that the public can "out organize" the GOP's corruption and criminality.

      • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Biden and the DC democrats seem wholly disconnected from reality. I think this year they will set a record for absolute worst year of political failures in American history.

        Texas became a Handmaid state where women have no reproductive rights. The dems have done nothing on a federal level. Apparently - they will do nothing.

        425 voter suppression bills were introduced in 49 state legislatures over the last year. 33 have been enacted in 19 states.

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        And I assume that 100% (or nearly 100%) of the bills are GOP bills. And 425 is the recent number. Every few weeks it goes up more. The dems have done nothing on a federal level. Apparently - they will do nothing.

        And there's the terrible Build Back Better bill. It was $6T then 3.5 then 1.75 and - who knows - next week it might be ~$1.2.

        I think so far we've said goodbye to:

        • paid family leave
        • tuition-free community college
        • meaningful climate provisions
        • expanded Medicare eligibility + vision/hearing/dental
        • prescription drug price controls
        • universal non-means-tested child care + tax credit
        • billionaire tax

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        All of this is insane.

          • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            reducing labour protections for children

            That's so nasty.

            to wait workers demanding higher pay out

            And the dems pretend they are the "workers" party. Biden's advisors are ghouls. I posted about it...

            https://hexbear.net/post/149092

            Scroll down to see my comment with quotations from his Wikipedia page that says he's “a strong advocate for workers”. Everything about the dems is total fucking bullshit

              • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                They're like the world's worst b-movie that somehow manages not to have a single second of unintentional comedy or oddities. The entire movie from start to finish is only dull and mind numbingly bad.