(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Today's the Day The Supreme Court Kills The Administrative State. (Probably.) [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-06-30 Well friends, we knew it was coming. We thought it might have been last week, then Monday, then yesterday, but no, today's the day the Supreme Court publishes its opinion on West Virginia v EPA. As we explained back in May and yesterday , this SCOTUS season is both "the culmination of a well-funded strategy to flood the legal system with partisan ideologues to create, normalize, spread, and rule on arguments with a legal pretense but political purpose and/or profit motive" and "just the start of the damage this Court is going to do to the United States." And as we said Monday , this is a Court " polluters packed with ' numerical minority justices ' — the only five in the history of the Supreme Court to be appointed and represent the views of a minority of voters" — whose unprecedented rulings fly in the face of the views of the majority of Americans and, you know, actual precedent. Which is, paradoxically, the silver lining here. Because while today's SCOTUS ruling will almost certainly be a significant obstacle to federal climate action (and potentially a whole host of other public health and consumer protections) that necessitates dramatic reforms to the Court if it is to regain its legitimacy , it's not going to be popular. Two-thirds of the country wants climate regulations , and 60% are worried about this decision . As they should be. We saw the Court strip away the Constitutional right to abortion and strip away Native American sovereignty , undermine protections against police malfeasance and abuse , and again undermine campaign finance rules — all while shamelessly claiming the ballot box is the appropriate venue for these issues, while eviscerating voting rights protections and upholding racist voter suppression . And we won't forget. This decision will be the latest hurdle to overcome in this unfair marathon of a group project from hell that we call a country. The climate community doesn't need to educate more Americans on the threat of climate change — we're already living it. What we need to understand now isn't the science of carbon pollution. It's the politics. But even beyond politics, it's power. Republicans and climate deniers didn't "win" by convincing more Americans they were right about fossil fuel pollution being delicious and nutritious. They didn't build majority support for their policies through persuasive media and good faith debating. They worked diligently, with hundreds of millions of donor dollars, over decades, to secure victory using raw power, inventing a norm to prevent Democratic President Obama from seating a Justice in an election year, then casting it aside to seat a Justice in the waning of the Republican Trump presidency. Multiple Justices have been credibly accused of sexual harassment, but they didn't slink away in shame, they DARVO'd- "deny, attack, reverse victim and offender," and are now out for revenge . This isn't a Court that will be reasoned with through compellingly elegant legal reasoning. It's a majority built with pure partisan power pushing aside precedent ( and the democratic process ). They're not going to give away that power because it would be just and fair and the right thing to do. They will cling to it and wield it with ever-greater impunity, until and unless that wrongfully seized power is rightfully taken back. Hopefully it doesn't take the "they go low, we go high" crowd too long to figure that out. The stakes couldn't be higher, so as Mariame Kaba said, "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair." [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/30/2107475/-Today-s-the-Day-The-Supreme-Court-Kills-The-Administrative-State-Probably Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/