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Re:Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf] by silverquiet on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:58AM (#40821264)
How do you imagine a liberal majority would come about within the next few decades? This was engineered over decades and now the conservatives have all the marbles; that's why they feel so free to rule how they've always wanted.
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Re:Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf] by spanktheuser on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:19PM (#40823420)
I imagine you’d need circumstances similar to those that nearly resulted in the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have granted Roosevelt the ability to appoint 6 additional Supreme Court Justices. Namely:

- National crisis unifying popular support for liberal legislation. - Liberal control of the executive and legislative branches. - A series of supreme court rulings that effectively thwart a popular liberal agenda.

I have no idea if this is likely; however it nearly happened less than a century ago during a period with noticeable parallels to our circumstances today.

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