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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 385: Voting Rights Axed
xp1337
01/20/22 4:29:51 AM
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Rock is right here, the complete loss of SCOTUS has basically crippled progressive legislation for at least a generation, probably two.

Debt forgiveness would immediately face a wave of challenges and even if I beleive Biden has the authority I also sure as hell don't trust that a partisan court upholds it, especially with how friendly it has been to corporations.

DoomTheGyarados posted...
Gonna be funny when the Supreme Court tries to tell the doj what cases it has to prosecute lol
this is kinda what the case law of the take care clause is about. hell, scotus (at the time 4-4 because of garland's seat being held up and so not precedent) started to raise the signal that it might strike down DAPA because of it. Trump rescinding it mooted the case so we don't know how they ultimately would have ruled but seeing that they split 4-4 with a much friendlier court composition...

I will say though that I'm not sure they would overturn rescheduling a drug. Like, I see where Rock is coming from on this but I'm also not entirely sure who even would have standing to bring the suit. Congress? Would they even bother?

But SCOTUS would 100% kill any meaningful executive orders if Biden (or hypothetically Sanders) tried to use them. Would it be completely hypocritical of them given their behavior and attitude towards EOs under Trump? Absolutely. Have we already seen them pull this exact shit? Absolutely. Just look at the travel ban saga or remain in Mexico and how they treated it under Trump versus all the barriers and orders thrown up to force Biden to continue enforcing parts of it and preventing the administration from just ending them.

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