‘Judicial Power Grab’ — A Guest Op-Ed by Martin Sheil

Marty explains Chevron

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“This is a type of corporate Fascism that deserves its own circle of hell...We are now faced with a unique form of Judicial Fascism with a Christian face and a deregulatory thrust that threatens the entire citizenry.”—Martin Sheil for Bette Dangerous

I knew the latest SCOTUS ruling would get lost in the information war, so I asked retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil to explain the importance to Bette members, so we would be able to then share with our own networks.

Marty let fly… read on.

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Just woke up

Give me a few

Need some coffee to go with the bile that just boils within me every time I think of the Judicial power grab brought on by the SCOTUS decision shedding Chevron…

The plan to diminish government agency power over big business embodied by the recent SCOTUS decision to eviscerate the legal cornerstone of Federal government regulatory authority - has been long plotted by Koch and big oil funded think tanks and non profits, fleshed out during luxury vacays on their yachts, aided and abetted by Federalist Society suckups for years and that will have us all choking on smog with no viable options in the very near now.

What is Chevron?

A Cornerstone case law precedent now overturned — meaning Administrative government agencies to be replaced by judges with lifetime tenure - accountable to no one and completely manipulated by the corporate executives of America — will now decide whether corporate polluters have gone too far, whether our water is safe to drink, our food safe to eat, our medicine safe to take, our cars safe to drive, our toys safe to play…

This is a type of corporate Fascism that deserves its own circle of hell

Give me a few Heidi

I need some caffeine to help wash down the mental toxins that exploded  all around me with the Chevron decision that just revamped our regulatory structure in a single judicial stroke and revolutionized our entire government at the hands of elitist right-wing rogue justices dressed in black robes and masquerading as officers of the court while really serving as enablers of the corporate oligarchy that now nakedly rules this once great country via the power that only money and profit can get you.

Give me a few so I can get my head straight.

Chevron means judges now trump trained specialists when it comes to deciding whether toys manufactured by powerful corporations might represent a danger to our children.

Chevron means that judges with Poly Sci majors have more authority to decide whether the chemicals mixed in your pharmaceuticals and food and water are safe to ingest.

That's right.

The History nerds on SCOTUS who can't even agree on what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Constitution when it comes to equal rights - yeah those are the folks who are going to decide the coming major scientific controversies relative to Artificial Intelligence applications - not real scientists.

AS IF - SCOTUS has shown any medical or scientific insight into the medical/legal hell that millions of women and doctors now find themselves since Dodd.

When denuding Chevron, SCOTUS has deregulated all questionable scientific and technological advances and compelled all legal quesntion to be viewed via the simplistic ideological Libertarian lens of whether it is Christian? Does it break one of the Ten Commandments? Does it hurt corporate profits? Would MAGA approve? Would Leonard Leo?

Give me a few ...

I am thinking right now that Chief Justice Roberts via sending Chevron to the dogpile - has cemented his legacy in history or should I say infamy - by heading up the worst SCOTUS in history and bypassing Chief Justice Roger Taney of the inglorious Dred Scott decision. 

Think about that...

When SCOTUS repealed the reproductive rights that all women held for over fifty years with Dodd overturning Roe v Wade we were witnessing a Christian fundamentalist takeover of SCOTUS long in the making. Many though it could not get any worse than that.

Think again.

When SCOTUS axed Chevron they put us all in jeopardy not just child-bearing women but all of us who rely on clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.

When SCOTUS sent Chevron to the shitcan and asserted themselves as the ultimate arbiter in all things that could negatively impact corporate profits, they are imposing a unique authoritarian rule upon us, splashing us all with their hubris and their arrogance.

Who is going to tell SCOTUS they have overstepped?

Who is going to hold SCOTUS accountable to the people?

We should have seen this power grab coming. Someone should have held Alito and Thomas ethically accountable when they did not disclose their luxury gifts and vacations.

Eyebrows were raised at the gifted Recreational Vehicle and the upside down flag but hardly a word was said when threats to go after IVF and contraceptives were included in judicial opinions. 

Hardly anyone raised a voice when justices publicly noted a more Christian like society was needed

We are now faced with a unique form of Judicial Fascism with a Christian face and a deregulatory thrust that threatens the entire citizenry.

There is no room for silence here. We can not afford to stick our heads in the sand and be willfully blind to an insidious danger to both our Democracy and our health.

The choice has never been more clear. The people need to be heard. The people's representatives need to take action.

SCOTUS has made their choice clear so that whenever it comes to People v Profits ? - SCOTUS will vote profits every time so drenched in their own hubris and hypocrisy that they cannot see.

In burying Chevron, SCOTUS has made themselves more powerful and, as ever, no more accountable as they chase more favors from their solicitous oligarchy.

Will the people or their representatives come to their senses and take steps to hold SCOTUS in check?

Make SCOTUS accountable?

Or will Congress choke - not on tthe toxic fumes spewed by the fossil fuel industry whose corporate contributions prop them up, but by heir own self inflicted ideological tribal divisions?

Give me a few while I ponder that..

Hey Heidi - Fuck it - I'm done in that I will never be done with this rant because I am never going to stop demonstrating the corrosive impact of Big money on Big politics and now sadly, on our Judiciary, which was once the envy of every government in the world and now,

NO MORE!

Marty - writing from his little cage which just got a little smaller after Chevron

Ohm.

Let us be strong enough to write our own happy ending, which includes winning in November — maintaining democratic governance and putting an end to the capture of our judiciary.

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