Sheldon Whitehouse on RW Oligarchs' Deconstruction of American Law & Their Intellectual Weaponry

[ancianita]

His 15th presentation on The Scheme, this speech is about the planned destruction of the EPA and overall, the "administrative state."

The hothouses that reverse engineering the illiberal goals of oligarchs through the Koch Cato Institute, George Mason University's C Boyden Gray's Center for the Study of the Administrative State -- "factories for ideological artillary designed for the demolition of federal agencies' authority, particularly over polluters." The...
-- Unitary Executive Legal Theory (from Reagan days, now a Federalist Society cornerstone)
-- None-delegation "Doctrine" is retooled to target agencies in general; NDD allows federal courts to shift power away from Congress to unelected courts to decide what Congress may and may not decide;
-- Major Questions Doctrine, used to declare that some questions are just too big to regulate; and all the anonymous political spending corporations may use to blockade Congress;

These doctrines are a feature of corporate capture of government, destroying all that good agencies have done for Americans' well being and the American economy.

The Scheme lingo of "administrative state" is nothing less than "special interest mischief."
Moreover "Advisory Opinion" is forbidden under the Constitution.
Precedence demolition is what this captured court now engages in.

Bad guys: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, Donors Trust, Judicial Crisis Network

SCOTUS is the court that big fossil fuel dark money built.

From the Court, in Mistretta: "In our increasingly complex society, replete with ever changing and more technical problems, Congress simply cannot do its job absent an ability to delegate power under broad general directives." That statement is now the Court's favored legal precedent to justify our government's deconstruction.

[Timeflyer]

1. Tough to hear but so important

Whitehouse is great. But it feels like the closing years of the Roman Republic. The rich and powerful want it all and don't care if democracy dies.

[ancianita]

2. Indeed. And their deconstruction toward minority rule continues in statehouses, as well.

imo, Whitehouse is the deliberative MVP of the Senate.

[rampartc]

3. +1 i did not think i'd listen to the entire speech

but this may be worse than the dobbs vs women's health debacle.

[ancianita]

4. It's hard to sit with. I had to take breaks.

Yes, well, they're both widespread in their nationwide damage, so they're both equally horrid debacles.

[FreepFryer]

5. why isnt this a national security matter (nt)

[ancianita]

6. Exactly, and it's interesting that you bring it up right now.

Because it was the U.S. Military that was the first major sector to formally write that "Climate" is the U.S.'s biggest national security threat. Yet, ironically,

Yet UN-ironically, the U.S. Military is also the biggest consumer of fossil fuel. I don't want to conspiracy theorize. I just want to say it's possible that within the military there is some inertia in supporting civilian energy politics and spending. There might be some connection between Big Fossil Dark Money and the military, and there might be a clean energy/anti-Big Fossil faction in the military.

It's reminds me of how some Big Corps donors donate to both parties.

Big Fossil contracts with the military are Big Profit, and there is ZERO return on investment to Americans when we fund the U.S. Military. The U.S. Military will likely be the last sector to give up fossil fuel, and Big Fossil probably doesn't ever want to let go of the U.S. Military.

We civilians who presume civilian rule over the military have to come up with fast and permanent solutions that break the military-industrial fossil bond. Because we civilians pay hundreds of billions of dollars to the military every year.

Break that bond, as commander-in-chief in a second term, and Biden can ALSO break Big Fossil's hold on the RW oligarchs, and their 2.5 Branches of bagmen who are bleeding democracy dry.

[dlk]

7. Whitehouse brilliantly pulled back the curtain on the power elites' well-coordinates schemes

Their goal is to neuter the federal government and bring it to heel, and it’s horrifying to realize how far they’ve succeeded. Thank you for sharing this important speech.

[TeamProg]

8. Really scarey stuff. Whitehouse has been on this for years now.

Thanks for posting!