Next up: this illegitmate, stolen court will dismantle the federal regulatory apparatus on Monday.

[Nevilledog]

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Next up: this illegitmate, stolen court will dismantle the federal regulatory apparatus on Monday.

This will push each state to have to implement its own wildly different environmental and regulatory regimes.

They're going to literally destroy the country. /1

In a country this polarized, leaving each state to do whatever it wants while keeping Congress broken and undemocratic by filibusters, gerrymandering and big money in elections, means the country will inevitably balkanize. Originalism is a path to national destruction. /2

Blue states will be providing corridors and safe havens for women, LGBT people and others, in shadows of the 1860s. Companies won't be able to have offices in some states. People won't send their kids to college in certain states. States will be constantly suing each other. /3

It all comes down to the fact that the compromises the Framers made to get slave states on board with a union were bad ones and led to a civil war. Reconstruction didn't last long enough. Jim Crow should have been demolished by force. This is the same shit, different day. /4

You can't have normal folks coexisting legally with states run by vicious, cruel white christian nationalists, without federal regulations and rights guarantees, while the former are disenfranchised and their votes count for less. The country won't hold together. /5

The "states should do whatever they want and the federal govt should have no power except what literally passes filibuster-proof through our broken, rigged, apartheid, and dark-money-drenched Congress & White House" crowd, if they win, will literally destroy the country. /6

Once again, California is not going to follow Idaho's rules. We're just not. We don't have to and our people deserve better. And if we have to Constitutionally protect basic social rights and set up our independent EPA because the GOP destroyed the federal govt, we will. /7

And because we're the 5th largest economy in the world, California's decisions will have a lot of sway. People from Idaho will come here to get abortions & we *will* protect them. Automakers will follow CA standards.

Originalists have no clue the Pandora's Box they are opening.8

Letting every state functionally be a country unto itself while leaving Congress rigged and broken is a horrifically bad idea. Republicans are literally destroying this country's ability to function as a unified whole. /end
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[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Maybe some kind of democratic/progressive core can be rescued from the "shitholers".

[FalloutShelter]

2. They are a wreaking ball.

[BlueIdaho]

3. In the insane mad rush towards the ultimate supremacy of states rights

How long before the federal Supreme Court rules itself out of existence?

[former9thward]

4. A very strange OP

"and set up our independent EPA" ????

CA already has its own EPA and has for decades. They set their own standards. What is the OP posting about that they don't know this basic fact about their own state?

https://calepa.ca.gov/

[Thomas Hurt]

5. The Religious Court is going to go on a states rights binge and turn back the clock...

to the articles of confederation. The have trashed precedent and shown they are going to decide cases on ideological terms.

Chief Justice Roberts has been usurped, Alito is the new dictator of the Court.

The asshole can't even retire without painting a target on his back. Might as well he has already sold out what little integrity he had.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[scipan]

7. Will all the dark money then go to the states

And away from the 2 branches of the legislature?

And then could we have maybe 60 Dems in the Senate and a majority of the House?

And then could we expand SCOTUS to 13?

And then reverse it all?

I can hope, okay?