The Supreme Court now has five votes to sabotage the next Democratic presidency.
This article by Ian Millhiser was published on the Reader Supported News (RSN) website on November 26th, 2019.
A brief commentary about the article by Paul Cienfuegos, Community Rights US Founder and Director:
The author predicts catastrophe for any future effort by Democrats to use federal regulations to protect the environment, health and safety, labor rights, etc, if the Supreme Court succeeds in diminishing the power of federal regulatory agencies to regulate corporate behavior. But we at Community Rights US believe that the federal regulatory system of law is actually a disaster for workers and the environment, in its current form, as it allows for and fully legalizes and normalizes substantial levels of corporate harm, rather than prohibiting such harms. And it places corporate leaders in charge at the very agencies that are regulating their corporate activities. So the entire regulatory system of law that we’ve got now is a disaster and needs to be entirely dismantled and rebuilt from the bottom up. Perhaps what the Republicans are planning will backfire for them? Regardless, our existing regulations are allowing the ongoing destruction of people and planet at a ferocious pace, which is already a catastrophe for all of us.
Beginning in the latter half of the Obama administration, Federalist Society gatherings grew increasingly fixated on diminishing the power of federal agencies to regulate businesses and the public — an agenda that would severely weaken seminal laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
On Monday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh signaled that he is on board with this agenda.
(To read the rest of this article at its orginal source please click HERE.)