Meet the new kings of the United States
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I will have more about one of the more lunatic days in the mostly ignominious history of the United States Supreme Court later. But I cannot resist this bullshit from Neil Gorsuch, defending the decision to overrule 40 years of settled law in overruling Chevron by invoking Lincoln:
Let’s look at Lincoln’s full quote, shall we:
If this important decision had been made by the unanimous concurrence of the judges, and without any apparent partisan bias, and in accordance with legal public expectation, and with the steady practice of the departments throughout our history, and had been in no part, based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and re-affirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, to not acquiesce in it as a precedent.
But when, as it is true we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled doctrine for the country.
The extremely controversial, so partisan it was endorsed by the president before it was issued 7-2 decision less than a year old declaring the central aim of one of the two major political parties unconstitutional based in part on many demonstrable historical howlers is just like the cross-ideological 6-0 decision that has stood for decades. Truly brilliant historical analysis, even before we get to how strongly Gorsuch and the rest of the Neoconfederate Six would resist the broader theme of Lincoln’s remarks (to which the broad left in this country should pay heed.)
Anyway, let’s see what one of the newly self-appointed unelected heads of the executive branch was up to yesterday:
Justice Gorsuch's opinion refers five times to "nitrous oxide" (aka laughing gas) rather than the entirely different chemical compound — smog-causing "nitrogen oxides" — actually at issue in the case.— Sean Donahue (@seantankerous) June 27, 2024
Chevron being overruled the day after Gorsuch couldn’t grasp the distinction between a pollutant and the gas his dentist gave him before a root canal is absolutely exquisite. No notes.