r/facepalm • u/Loud-Ad-2280 • 6d ago

Yeah they probably should have been charged with treason not just obstruction 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Big-Leadership1001 6d ago

honestly this will blow up in their faces. Chevron overturn takes power away from both the Court (who made it up) and the President (who has way too much executive power). This makes Congress pass laws.. which they already do. So instead of a President just deciding to do something, they have to point at the exact law that Congress passed that says they have that power first.

Its going to be a shit show for a while because the majority of Congress doesn't even show up for work half the time. They're going to have to figure out how to work like the rest of us, and corporations will suddenly either have to pay for laws that straight up prove who they are bribing, or get fucked because they can't just bribe executive agencies any more.

Wall Street is a big one here. The SEC has been run by the banks forever. When they get caught committing crimes, the fines are lower than the illicit profits the crimes earned. Congress will need to either just give up on pretending there is any Wall Street oversight, or pass some legislation that actually creates it for the first time ever... and has the side effect of punishing Congress for insider trading. Its going to be interesting.

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u/wpaed 6d ago

I'm pretty sure this is the actual aim of the court in this case, sending Congress a message to do their fucking jobs or face voter anger over them not doing what they are supposed to.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 6d ago

Fortunately, all these decisions substantially weaken SCOTUS. This overturn and even RvW explicitly only happened because they decided the Supreme Court is not allowed to write laws and can't make them. They overturned rulings the court had made that wound up creating laws - some that put people in federal prisons - through judicial oversteps that had never been passed by congress. So what they are doing is making themselves a Court instead of a Legislature with no check or balance.

It's on Congress to pass these things as actual laws. I am stoked at the possibility that Congress has to start showing up for work.

I'm half expecting them to reinstate the 10th Amendment next but I don't see anything applicable on the docket.