Wow. Scientific American blasts SCOTUS rulings:
"Science is dismissed and disdained in this war on reality."
"technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else."
"In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people."
@4d3fect @enoch_exe_inc @petergleick
The point at which the pendulum swings back.
@petergleick
Nice article.
“Originalism” - a completely original interpretation of the Constitution, with no basis in history, which just happens to be exactly what the Republican SCJ’s owners want.
@pomegranate_stew @petergleick
SCOTUS six are not originalists. They are not textualists. They are origami experts. They bend and fold their decisions and transform them into something heretofore unimagined creature.
@MartyLemert @pomegranate_stew @petergleick They sort of ARE originalists. I say 'sort of', because there is no AUTHENTIC originalism, like they might be originalism-adjacent or something like that. They're as originalist as anyone is. It's just that originalism itself is, at best, mystical bullshit. So-called 'textualism' is only a bastard cousin, little better for solving tough questions. It's all quasi-legal voodoo.
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/originalism-as-dangerous-nonsense/
In my 2018 book Originalism as Faith, after canvassing numerous different and often conflicting forms of originalism, I argued that many originalists hold on to the idea that text and history should be used by judges to resolve hard constitutional cases because they could not accept the realist critique that the Supreme Court’s decisions are ideology […]
What a fantastic argument against installing a technocracy.
The concept of "consent of the governed" may well be beyond the ken of those mourning the just and overdue termination of the Chevron Doctrine.
If the people want a policy, then their representatives in Congress should pass a law and get it signed by a President. No President (or their administration) should have the power to make unilateral law regardless of how well justified it might be courtesy of scientists.
I also make a mean fondue!
@petergleick
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How can you call them corrupt for accepting millions of $s as gifts after their rulings. They clearly defined after the fact payments as "Gratuities" and not "bribes."
It should be obvious to anyone that there is not corruption at all.
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Sounds like grounds for impeachment to me.
@504DR But sadly not for too much of the Senate.
I read this about an hour ago or so and I'm still dumbstruck
My people. This is the way.
@petergleick
Ah, it's just an alternate reality that is more convenient.
Like that where Donald I of the Trumps rules over the American Empire without all these irritating elections every couple years.
This is one of those posts I like to see, and make me wonder: why didn't I see this earlier. Why am I not following the right people. 😏
This should be trumpeted from the rooftops.
@petergleick Well, they're annoyed. If they print that, I wonder what they say in the Scientific American offices.
PS. Of course, they're right to be seriously annoyed.
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