Happy July Fourth 2024
July 04, 2024
It was great to wake up today and read The New York Times, as I do every morning, and see that there were no terrible decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court announced on July Fourth.
The head of the Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank, said in an interview that the second American Revolution is underway and it will be bloodless if the Left lets it.
I never expected in 2024 that the Far Right could take over the Supreme Court. It’s shocking to me that it rejected a decadeslong legal precedent Friday, reducing the power of executive agencies and endangering thousands of regulations by transferring power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts. The justices said that “agencies have no special competence” and that judges should determine the meaning of federal laws.
That means thousands of government regulations can now be brought up for review by corporations and killed by conservative judges. Hard fought consumer protections are likely to be lost in the blink of an eye.
We all need to continue to do the best we can to fight this assault from the Far Right.
A second American Revolution? My gosh.
We all need to decide what we can do to keep our democracy in the United States of America working. It surprises me every day that some people believe the lies and deception from the Far Right and that their anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-woman, racist ideology will improve their lives.
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