“Justice” #ClarenceThomas explained that the #oil company had cleared the bar required to move the case into federal court because the lawsuit dealt with oil production in #Louisiana dating back to WWII, when #Chevron refined crude oil into aviation #gasoline for the #US #military.
He wrote that Chevron had shown that its #wartime production of crude oil related to its wartime aviation-gasoline refining for the military, a #federal priority.
The justices unanimously agreed to allow the #oil companies to fight the lawsuits in #federal court rather than #state court.
“Congress has long authorized federal officers & their agents to remove suits brought against them in state court to federal court,” Justice #ClarenceThomas wrote.
#law #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #PublicHealth #habitats #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
I would argue that Clarence Thomas - long term - has done more to help liberals than any other justice in American history.
From overturning Roe - which essentially guaranteed abortion access to much of the population by enshrining rights in state constitutions to revisiting precedents which then hands the left opportunities to revisit "settled law" (such as Citizens United).
Is he a good and smart person? Mmmm. I don't know.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5834309-clarence-thomas-civility-concerns/
I guess we know whose side he’s on. 😕
“‘The century of progressivism,’ Thomas claims, ‘did not go well.’ For whom? By the mid-twentieth century, progressive reforms (and, later, the New Deal laws that built upon them) helped Americans reach higher standards of living than they could have imagined. …
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#Politics #USPolitics #DeclarationOfIndependance #Progressivism #ProgressivePolitics #History #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #CivilRights #NewDeal
https://newrepublic.com/article/209183/clarence-thomas-history-progressivism-speech
With Cox V. Sony The Supreme Court Provides Yet Another Internet-Protecting Decision
Predictably, #ClarenceThomas sounds most open to the #Trump admin’s position.
Thomas recounts that the aim of the 14th amendment was to make citizens of the freed slaves. “How much of the debates around the 14 Amendment had anything to do with immigration?”
#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #MafiaState #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy
In its opinion released Wednesday, #SCOTUS said a company was not liable for “merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights.”
Writing for the court, Justice #ClarenceThomas said a provider like Cox was liable “only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement” & if it, for instance, “actively encourages infringement.”
#law #music #copyright #IntellectualProperty #internet #business
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