Today the Roberts Court handed down a decision in Trump v Slaughter in which the Six Oathbreakers of the Roberts Court decided that regulatory agencies couldn’t possible be independent of the king, er, President unless they were the Federal Reserve and also made a shout-out to the traitors of the Confederacy. Paul Krugman remarked that this decision “makes it extremely difficult for the economy to function.” There’s a lot of legal and economic commentary by experts, and I am here adding a few notes of my own.
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This court is simply ruling in favor of wealth and monarchic power. It is not even meaningfully capitalist; their rulings are destructive of capital. Once I understood that this court consistently rules in favor of wealth and aristocratic, especially monarchic, power, I found this Court’s jurisprudence predictable in these areas. This is a violation of both the written Constitution and the intention of the founders.
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The Roberts court is protecting its personal interests and those of its patrons. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have unimaginably rich families and Alito and Thomas have extraordinarily rich patrons. I don’t know about the personal wealth of Barrett and Roberts but I believe it is substantial. This is personal for them. I don’t think there’s ideology in it at all; they’re simply protecting their wealth and, incidentally, the wealth of other very wealthy people.
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The attacks on the regulatory state seem to be likely to be mainly motivated by a desire to protect the value of fossil fuel reserves.
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