Seems kind of interesting , like at the most basic level seems one persons settlement shouldn’t infringe on someone else’s rights but feels like kind of happens with class action lawsuits all the time by making a bunch of public notice and if you miss that your fucked?
So you mights get quoted in the newspaper. Or something. It could be something like suppose I had $20,000 and if my project gets approved, suppose I leave it on the street outside my reps house a few days later. I mean hypothetically.
The rare interesting case that actually allowed the scotus judges to mostly be independent arbiters and not political activists.
Virtually any remotely just system that had the death penalty as an available penalty would surely assess that penalty on the specific executives at the company that made the choices that led to what happened. Basically whatever the most severe penalty the system can levy should have landed on these people and years ago.
As for the money, yeah there should be no corporate bankruptcy shield for situations involving significant criminality so every shareholder should possess an amount of the total liability equivalent to their shareholdings. I suspect that is going to run into the negative millions of dollars per share so yes we should take everything every Perdue Pharma shareholder owns big/small/medium to pay the families of the people they murdered.
Would that make the stock market a lot less valuable? Yes. Good. Suddenly the shareholders will give quite a few shits about ethics as opposed to the who cares attitude we honestly have now.
Oh cool, Chevron deference is dead and no one will even notice because we’re coping with the fact that Trump won a 2nd term last night.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/politics/chevron-precedent-supreme-court/index.html
yeah it doesn’t really matter when trump is going to fill the EPA with mutants from superfund sites
This was a real bad day at SCOTUS, on top of killing Chevron they also threw out charges for hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and (overruling the 9th circuit) said it’s totally fine for states to criminalize homelessness. All 6-3 (though the Jan. 6 one had Barrett and Jackson switch sides)
And we still have the anointing of God King Trump yet to come.
It feels unlikely they’ll actually rule in his favor there, but they’ve already helped him so much by holding the decision back until the last possible day. They sprung into action with lightning speed to rule states can’t keep him off their ballots and are now taking months to answer the question “are presidents kings, actually?”
Reminder: Bush v. Gore was decided in ONE DAY.
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The same group of conservative justices who think they should be the experts to interpret in-the-weeds federal regulatory law put out an opinion that referenced “nitrous oxide” (laughing gas) five times when it should have said “nitrogen oxide”
John Roberts literally said actual experts don’t have any specialized knowledge but courts do as Gorsuch wrote about the wrong kind of gas in his opinion.
A system where the regulators make the rules and the courts very sparingly overrule (very high bar) seems to make sense.
Wait, you’re telling me that’s what he had all this time?
Jfc
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I can’t wait for the rest of the rulings tomorrow. It should be a great day!
My armchair predictions:
- Trump loses immunity 7-2 but of course the damage is already done by waiting until fucking July to release it
- Florida and Texas lose their “Twitter can’t ban white nationalists” social media law case 6-3 (like last week’s case)
- There’s also Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and I know nothing about this case or its importance
Joe should have seal team six in position in case full presidential immunity is a thing.