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Clearly the #CorruptSCOTUS did not heed this part of the Declaration of Independence when deciding voting cases:
"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
If they did, companies and PACs couldn't spend unlimited funds. Districts couldn't be gerrymandered for partisan reasons. And voter suppression rules would be unconstitutional.
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Clearly the #CorruptSCOTUS did not heed this part of the Declaration of Independence when deciding voting cases:
"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
If they did, companies and PACs couldn't spend unlimited funds. Districts couldn't be gerrymandered for partisan reasons. And voter suppression rules would be unconstitutional.
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Clearly the #CorruptSCOTUS did not heed this part of the Declaration of Independence when deciding voting cases:
"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
If they did, companies and PACs couldn't spend unlimited funds. Districts couldn't be gerrymandered for partisan reasons. And voter suppression rules would be unconstitutional.
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Clearly the #CorruptSCOTUS did not heed this part of the Declaration of Independence when deciding voting cases:
"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
If they did, companies and PACs couldn't spend unlimited funds. Districts couldn't be gerrymandered for partisan reasons. And voter suppression rules would be unconstitutional.
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Clearly the #CorruptSCOTUS did not heed this part of the Declaration of Independence when deciding voting cases:
"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
If they did, companies and PACs couldn't spend unlimited funds. Districts couldn't be gerrymandered for partisan reasons. And voter suppression rules would be unconstitutional.
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I'm beginning to think Justice Roberts will be forced out shortly after the midterms. He's just not consistently loyal enough to Trump.
His reward for destroying the VRA, Roe and campaign finance limits? Being shunned and outcast.
Ever thus to those in the face-eating leopard party.
#CorruptSCOTUS
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I'm beginning to think Justice Roberts will be forced out shortly after the midterms. He's just not consistently loyal enough to Trump.
His reward for destroying the VRA, Roe and campaign finance limits? Being shunned and outcast.
Ever thus to those in the face-eating leopard party.
#CorruptSCOTUS
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I'm beginning to think Justice Roberts will be forced out shortly after the midterms. He's just not consistently loyal enough to Trump.
His reward for destroying the VRA, Roe and campaign finance limits? Being shunned and outcast.
Ever thus to those in the face-eating leopard party.
#CorruptSCOTUS
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I'm beginning to think Justice Roberts will be forced out shortly after the midterms. He's just not consistently loyal enough to Trump.
His reward for destroying the VRA, Roe and campaign finance limits? Being shunned and outcast.
Ever thus to those in the face-eating leopard party.
#CorruptSCOTUS
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I'm beginning to think Justice Roberts will be forced out shortly after the midterms. He's just not consistently loyal enough to Trump.
His reward for destroying the VRA, Roe and campaign finance limits? Being shunned and outcast.
Ever thus to those in the face-eating leopard party.
#CorruptSCOTUS
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All this, two and a half months before a federal election.
The timeline alone should be reason to suspend any new restrictions on voting.
But... #ThisIsAmericaNow with a #CorruptSCOTUS and #AmericanClownEmperor
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You'd think so, but no, the US Constitution and its amendments say nothing about the right of citizens to vote.
In fact, it only says that states set the rules for elections. Of course, various states have set very restrictive rules over the ages.
Recognising the problem, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1964. But 60 years of attacks and a #CorruptSCOTUS have undone that.
So here we are, racing to destroy the foundation of democracy.
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And 2024 wasn't a high watermark for free elections either.
Many (mostly red) states were gerrymandering, closing polling places, restricting drop boxes, purging registration rolls, encouraging absurd disputes, adding voter ID restrictions and more.
And, of course, the #CorruptSCOTUS had already gotten quite far in crushing the Voting Right Act.
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"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "
#OligarchCamp
#BohemianGrove
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ChevronDoctrine
#NDRC
#KochIndustries
#Oligarchy
#CorruptSCOTUS
#SCOTUSIsCompromised
#Corporatocracy
#Oiligarchy
#EnvironmentalProtections
#BigOilAndGas
#CorporatePolluters
#HeritageFoundation
#ClimateDeniers
#WaterIsLife
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#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDTExcerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.
"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.
"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.
"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.
"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.
"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.
"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."
#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife
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#WTF! #CorruptSCOTUS HAS GOT TO GO!!
#USAirForce avoids #PFAS water cleanup, citing #SupremeCourt’s #Chevron ruling
#EPA says Tucson’s drinking water is contaminated but air force claims agency lacks authority to order cleanup
by Tom Perkins
Mon 12 Aug 2024"The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the 'Chevron doctrine'. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS '#ForeverChemicals' and other dangerous compounds.
"Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the air force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how #polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson
#ImpeachJusticeThomas #ChevronDoctrine #SCOTUSIsCompromised
#ImpeachJusticeAlito #TuscanArizona #WaterIsLife #PFASPollution