First up on the docket, according to The Hill, “The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments of a case between Idaho landowners and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a dispute that could redefine the scope of the country’s clean water regulations. … ‘This is a very, very, big deal for the Clean Water Act. It will determine, likely, whether the Clean Water Act can protect half of the water bodies in the country, and if it can’t, meeting the water quality goals of the law that we all count on will be virtually impossible,’ said Jon Devine, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s federal water policy team. Although overshadowed by the court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, last term saw the court vote 6-3 to pare back federal agency power in West Virginia v. EPA, a case that reined in the government’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Court watchers believe the conservative majority court will continue its rightward trajectory this term.”
Let’s not kid ourselves. Rolling back the government’s ability to regulate the air we breathe and the water we drink are just stumbling blocks to Court’s ultimate goal: To destroy the federal administrative state. Conservatives want to roll back as much federal power as possible and give it to the states as if air and water quality stops at state borders. But whatever! As I have written countless times in prior posts, the end of our freedoms — freedom to love who we love, not be discriminated against, have our votes count, and live without fear of drinking contaminated water or breathing polluted air, just to name a few things — is coming quickly, yet no one cares. Seriously. No! One! Cares! Least of all, SCOTUS.
The Court’s approval rating will continue to plummet, and they will continue to roll back more and more rights while rendering the federal government powerless to protect us on issues that should really matter to everyone. So, whatever. One need only search for my post the day RBG died to understand everything I predicted two years ago is about to come true — has already started coming true with the end of Roe. It’s only going to get worse with this (and all future) SCOTUS terms. This is what people voted for; this is what happens when voters elect RepubliKKKlans. If stupid Americans were paying attention, then all of this should have been foreseen, but people are morons, so when they elect conservatives to “protect their wallets,” they trade off all our rights. Welcome to stupid America! The end is coming, morons! Oh, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.