What SCOTUS just did to net neutrality, the right to repair, the environment, and more
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The end of Chevron deference will touch on everything from broadband policy to climate change.

The end of Chevron deference will touch on everything from broadband policy to climate change.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/WNE5v

  • Veraxus@lemmy.world
    481·
    6 months ago

    TL;DR; Our country is fucked. SCOTUS just made the unelected, unaccountable, oligarchy of judges the top law of the land, nationwide.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      1230·
      6 months ago

      Technically their interpretation is correct, laws should be explicitly enumerated by the legislative branch which has the most accountability to voters. We’re all just so desensitized to the fact that Congress is a wasteland of gridlock and special interest money that we don’t even expect them to do the job of creating laws anymore. If we had a working legislative branch this would be a gentle reminder for them to be thorough and use detailed language when crafting legislation, instead it’s a depressing reminder that our government quite literally cannot function without outsourcing the central function of one of the main branches.

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          28·
          6 months ago

          Yes I’m saying that the branch of government whose job it is to craft laws should be the one crafting laws. It’s amazing you can disagree with such a basic statement in such a condescending way and not even question whether or not you’re a acting like an asshole. Take your shitty attitude somewhere else.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    The key point of Chevron was that laws like these are policy decisions, and those policy decisions should be made by the political branches responsive to the voters, Congress and the president, not by unaccountable judges with no constituents. … (in 1984) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the Ronald Reagan admins industry-friendly EPA to stick with a lax interpretation of the Clean Air Act.

    So the 1984 ruling, and now the overturn, are efforts by a corrupt conservative-stacked court to benefit the conservative political and ideological agenda. I always believed that Americans would never do anything about an illegitimate court dismantling democracy and the rule of law, but it’s still just as comically dystopian to watch it happen in real time.

  • heavyEnglish
    161·
    6 months ago

    The scotus is illegitimate

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    the people who profit and benefit from this don’t have to worry about living in a barren toxic wasteland, they’ll just make their serfs build them a hardened fortress on every mountain summit, away from the stench of the unwashed proles who serve them hand and foot for table scraps