Kolek planning to go pro
You ain't seen nothing yet. The Court has annouced it is going to review a case that allows State Legislatures determine how elections are conducted, and such legislative decisions can't be reviewed by State courts.Full on Christofascism.
A few of the above "Pelican Brief" posts were flagged, so here we are.I have to say .. I am galactically befuddled as to how we haven't entered the political assassination phase. The country has all the elements, guns, fear, hatred, a feeling of helplessness/hopelessness, extreme disinformation painting the other side as evil. Not to mention the media/fame machine.Maybe people are too busy watching Netflix? I have no other explanation. It sure isn't "we're better than that."
Yup, and for that exact reason the Dems should start court packing.
The case SCOTUS is willing to hear involves racist gerrymandering in NC. Legislatures in southern states want to be able to do this with impunity. They also want to be able to install Trumpists to oversee elections so that next time it will be easier to pull of a coup and cancel millions of votes they don't like.
The most radical SC in history. Today, they voted in favor of a company's right to pollute.The right finally got the activist judges they hate so much.
It goes far further than overseeing elections, or gerrymandering for that matter. It goes to Eastman's theory that legislatures can write whatever rules they want, regardless of the state constitution, without oversight from the state judicial branch...and then, if the rules they wrote don't produce the outcome that they want, they can simply overrule the actual voting and do whatever they want.We've already seen the Republicans float the idea of changing state voting to be county-based so that a county of 700 people counts equally with a country with 700,000 people in order to dilute the voting power of cities. And, once the Catholic Jihadists rule, even if that still doesn't get the outcome they want, the State legislature can decide to do whatever their Christofascist hearts' desire.
And, once the Catholic Jihadists rule, even if that still doesn't get the outcome they want, the State legislature can decide to do whatever their Christofascist hearts' desire.
If you as a citizen want tough climate action and eliminating coal fired power plants, go to Congress and get them to pass a law. And then get the President to sign it. What the court effectively said is that Congress is the legislative branch of government, not the administrative agencies.
One very frustrating problem is how an administrative agency of government can create the regulation and then act as judge, jury and executioner. That's not the way the system was set up, though I admit finding the line against which an agency oversteps sounds easier than it is.
If you as a citizen want tough climate action and eliminating coal fired power plants, go to Congress and get them to pass a law. And then get the President to sign it.
Many of you forget that it's not the court's job to reflect popular opinion. It's the court's job to adjudicate, based on what the law says. Despite all the hysteria in here, the courts can't create rights out of thin air. And, yes, the administrative agencies can't go beyond what Congress has told them to do.
Coal is already dead. Industry already self-killed it. It's way cheaper to build a wind turbine or a solar farm. I read this last month and was surprised by it. The two states with the highest electric rates are West Virginia and Florida because both states are the most dependent on coal powered electricity. Florida, the Sunshine State, made it very hard to install solar power.
That's exactly what happened here. Congress passed the Clean Air Act. A president signed it. The executive branch carried out policy based on that.
I think there was a recent back and forth on here that involved discussion regarding conservatives rolling back EPA regulations.Welp.It's disgusting how segments of the population give no care toward future populations.
Source?
Brother T:Have you been to a Catholic Church lately?Jihadists? Yeah, right. This is scapegoating, clear and simple.I suspect you haven't been, so let me fill you in. Catholic attendance at Sunday Mass has fallen off dramatically. Churches that 10 years ago were jampacked today are less than half full. Interest in Catholic schools is falling and many Dioceses, like Chicago, are closing churches and schools en masse. The Roman Catholic Church as an institution is losing influence by the day, largely because of its own faults and stubbornness.Those families that go to church, look and think like the rest of the country. Take birth control. A generation ago, Catholic Mass was populated by families with large trains full of children. Today, your average Catholic family look a lot like the rest of the country -- two or three children. I can pretty much promise that ain't happening through abstinence or natural family planning.For Jihadists, we take an awfully strong view on the rights of our fellow men and women. Sure, our leadership has blind spots and they do dumb things from time to time. Gays, lesbians, pedophilia, occasional fraud and theft and women in general for starters. But as followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ -- and that, folks, is what it's about -- we reach out to those who are poor, suffering and otherwise in need. As a follower of Jesus, we do that with time, talent or treasure -- sometimes all three. We know that our God commands us to "love your neighbor as yourself," and as trying as that sometimes can be, we do our best. We often disagree with others on important issues to our nation or our world but if we're doing our job, we have a duty to listen and respect our adversaries. Sometimes you convince us to change our vision. Sometimes not.Fascists'? Jihadists? What Jihadist or fascist organization comes even close to being the largest NGO provider of social services in the world?
Where did you read that? Here's what I found for 2020 and 2021https://neo.ne.gov/programs/stats/inf/204.htmhttps://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/electricity-cost-by-stateand June 2022https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/
Perhaps you could look it up
I found the article but did misread. West Virginia prices are 35/40% higher than they should be because of some Joe Manchin as Governor passed thing.
Support a coup but afraid of a little bloodshed the other way and people turn into snowflakes. Sad!