This morning, the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA’s restrictions on power plant emissions.
Jerry Taylor, a former vice president of the catoinstitute, explains how federal pollution control is not effective, efficient, nor appropriate: “[Historically,] the greatest reductions in pollution we saw were under this regime of state and local regulatory authority – not under the EPA.”
The Voting Rights Act requires states with histories of the discrimination to get permission from the federal government before making changes to their election laws.
Section 4 determines the “coverage formula” for determining the states that are actually subjected to the law. Here’s what the court held: “Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional; its formula can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.”
Because people are seriously going around saying that a Supreme Court justice died this morning…rather than a supreme court nominee.
I heard “Robert Bork died” and knew he was a former supreme court nominee during the Reagan administration, whose nomination was rejected by the Democratically controlled Senate.
I didn’t even have to read the rest of the news update that Fox sent me at 6am.
I just knew who he was.
Because I’ve read books!
That person I reblogged was literally the 5th person to have said or written, where I could read it, that Bork was apparently on the Supreme Court.
Do people just not read anymore?
Before/After Assholes
Toxic water floods river after EPA disaster at Gold King Mine in Silverton
Source: The Durango Herald
GIFs: The Gasoline Station
This was the Environmental Protection Agency that did this.
You know, the government monopoly so many clamor to save us from the evils of modern humanity. Instead, as all government regulatory agencies, they often serve the interests of those they ostensibly regulate protecting the largest among them from liability and facilitating their interests.
Jesus.
Fucking EPA.
If Harry Potter took place in America, Dolores Umbridge would be a Tea Party leader.
Yes, because the government bureaucrat, that implements increasingly strict regulations, is totally the same as an average American working to decrease the amount of government regulations and decrease the overall size of the federal government. You really put a lot of logic into your statement, didn’t you?
Of course it was Alito. We can add yet another reason to the growing list of reasons this man should be impeached, disbarred, and executed (the list includes, perjury, gross incompetence, crimes against humanity, conspiracy to commit a coup, and generally being a piece of shit who should be hanging from a gallows).
Legitimately watched Megyn Kelly steal words right out of my mouth (What makes you think that in a country that elected Barack Obama twice, a popular vote would give us a more conservative Supreme Court) and then Ted Cruz completely dodged it (typical).
Not only does this approach not make any sense at all, it also creates a situation in which the judges are beholden to voters. To win their spot in the next term they would have to weigh their decision against the popularity of their decision and not against the constitutionality of it.
Which means that if the SCotUS was currently under that rule the decision on gay marriage would almost certainly have been the same. Seeing as, currently, anywhere between 59 and 65% of peoplein the United States are pro-gay marriage at this point (and not a small percentage of conservatives as well) and that amount has been steadily increasing for years.
Does Ted Cruz even think about the long term repercussions of his bullshit?
Hey Obama, these environmental regulations are killing jobs. I thought you wanted job GROWTH!
ObamaCare is fatally flawed not just because it is poorly constructed, but because it relies on the outdated philosophy that the federal government can solve our problems through more spending, more taxes, more regulations, and more bureaucrats.
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Americans should be able to purchase coverage across state lines so they can seek out affordable coverage regardless of where they live.
Oh look more real plans and not just pandering and platitudes. Why can’t all candidates be like this. Even if their plans didn’t work (which this one will) I would have more respect if they had real plans.
I don’t play guitar, but I so want one of these.
i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to
