Sheldon Whitehouse on RW Oligarchs' Deconstruction of American Law & Their Intellectual Weaponry [View all]

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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.