Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
by forgetfulness on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:45AM
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The SCOTUS is a political battleground where Federal laws can be passed as jurisprudence on the interpretation of the US Constitution, circumventing the legislative process.
Instead of laws on reproductive rights, you had a ruling even detailing the time frames in which abortion was legal.
Instead of legalizing gay marriage, you have a ruling on the federal recognition of licenses issued in individual states.
Instead of a law on lobbying, you have a ruling saying that monetary contributions to campaigns are the free speech of lobbying groups.
Instead of an organic law on weapons permits, you have a ruling saying what kinds of firearm regulations states can pass.
But people can't say this politicization of the SCOTUS is new; back when the hot topic were worker rights, in the early XX century, those were the battles being fought there, to skip Congressional debates:
Instead of laws on reproductive rights, you had a ruling even detailing the time frames in which abortion was legal.
Instead of legalizing gay marriage, you have a ruling on the federal recognition of licenses issued in individual states.
Instead of a law on lobbying, you have a ruling saying that monetary contributions to campaigns are the free speech of lobbying groups.
Instead of an organic law on weapons permits, you have a ruling saying what kinds of firearm regulations states can pass.
But people can't say this politicization of the SCOTUS is new; back when the hot topic were worker rights, in the early XX century, those were the battles being fought there, to skip Congressional debates:
https://reason.com/2021/12/02/the-laissez-faire-origins-of-t...