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Lee Newman said:
That view is as seemingly out of touch with reality as the court’s decision. The rich white boys will be allowed back in because there is nothing stopping it anymore.
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I shouldn’t have said “rich,” but there are a lot of people who think affirmative action is keeping them from success, that someone has “skipped the line” ahead of them. They’re going to be surprised to learn just how far back in line they are.
 
Djxfactor511 said:
Student Loan Relief just went bye bye

And companies can discriminate against people based on sexual orientation

Today is just great. :mad:
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my fiance paid off all her student loans during the repayment pause over the past 3 years

me: I'll just wait to repay once some of my loans get cancelled with Biden's new executive order
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Based off of todays ruling, Medicare would fall if brought up in front of the courts. Because it has huge economic impacts, and it's policies are decided by Secretary of Health and Human Services rather than congress Medicare would have no legal standing based on todays ruling.
 
Just some of the things the John Roberts court has done:

• Overturned Roe v Wade

• Ended race based affirmative action

• Blocked student loan forgiveness

• Approved LGBTQIA+ discrimination

• Prevented New York from enacting gun laws

• Allowed forced prayer in school

• Prevented the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions

• Further protected dark money in politics

• Made it easier to give minors life without parole

• Evidence of innocence isn't enough to prevent death penalty

• The death penalty can be painful and torturous

• Allowed Trump's muslim travel ban

• Undermined unions

• Sanctioned voter suppression

• Police can violate your Miranda rights
 
Hemotep said:
Just some of the things the John Roberts court has done:

• Overturned Roe v Wade

• Ended race based affirmative action

• Blocked student loan forgiveness

• Approved LGBTQIA+ discrimination

• Prevented New York from enacting gun laws

• Allowed forced prayer in school

• Prevented the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions

• Further protected dark money in politics

• Made it easier to give minors life without parole

• Evidence of innocence isn't enough to prevent death penalty

• The death penalty can be painful and torturous

• Allowed Trump's muslim travel ban

• Undermined unions

• Sanctioned voter suppression

• Police can violate your Miranda rights
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I am just so irked by their blatant and obvious whoring of the court. JFC. I shouldn't even say that, sex work can be respectable, none of this can even fake a thin veneer of respectability.
 
yukbon said:
I am just so irked by their blatant and obvious whoring of the court. JFC. I shouldn't even say that, sex work can be respectable, none of this can even fake a thin veneer of respectability.
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The disssent pretty much says as much as well.

Justice Kagan says the Supreme Court majority is acting as an arbiter of politics — not cases​

From CNN's Tierney Sneed

In her dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, raged against the court’s ruling blocking President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
Kagan condemned what she characterized as a broader trend from the conservative majority, in which they limit executive branch discretion under a legal doctrine known as the “major questions doctrine.”
“The Court acts as though it is an arbiter of political and policy disputes, rather than of cases and controversies,” Kagan wrote.
She accused the court of “once again” substituting “itself for Congress and the Executive Branch — and the hundreds of millions of people they represent — in making this Nation’s most important, as well as most contested, policy decisions.”
She called the legal theory — which says Congress must speak specifically when giving executive branch agencies the authority to take aggressive actions of major economic of political consequence — “judicially manufactured” and “made-up” doctrine.
 

Explaining the "major questions doctrine" — and what it could mean for the future of programs like Medicare​

The Supreme Court's decision to block President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program is "another expansion of the so-called major questions doctrine," according to a CNN legal analyst — and this legal concept could play a key role in future decisions.
The major questions doctrine "allows federal judges to strike down any federal policy of ‘economic or political significance’ because Congress wasn’t sufficiently clear in authorizing the policy,” explains Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and a professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
It played a key role in the court ruling against Biden's student loan program, and it was the subject of ire from the court's liberal justices.
In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, railed against what she described as a broader trend by the conservative majority: using the major questions doctrine to limit the executive branch's power.
Kagan raised fears that the concept could be used to go after other large government programs, such as Medicare, because of their enormous "economic impact."
That's a possibility, according to Vladeck. If federal district judges look at a particular federal program and determine that it is one of "vast political or economic significance" and that they didn't think Congress acted specifically enough to authorize it, they could invoke the major questions doctrine in attempting to strike it down.
"It's open season now when it comes to federal programs — not just new and controversial ones like the student loan program — but longstanding ones like Medicare," Vladeck said.
Vladeck said the decision amounts to "transferring power from the political branches to the courts."
CNN's Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed contributed to this report.



 
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