Corporate America's Wet Dream is Coming True

Imagine an America where most of the country's regulatory agencies don't exist anymore and CEO's set the rules.

This is a warning.

The Supremely Conservative Court plans on addressing the topic this fall, and a decision is probably going to be announced next spring. It could fulfill Bannon's and Trump's promise to dismantle - or at least eviscerate - most of America's regulatory agencies.

This is a case that that could fundamentally transform America from a modern, well-functioning nation into a third-world backdrop where massive corporations and billionaires get richer.

Some background. The Legacy.

It was a Supreme Court judge's mother who set the ball rolling when she was appointed by Ronald Reagan to be in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. (EPA)

Anne Gorsuch quickly set out to gut the EPA. She dialed back restrictions on expansion of factories and other operations that were already polluting the atmosphere.

There was a Supreme Court challenge that overruled her and the Reagan Administration.

Nevertheless, Gorsuch continued to hammer away at the agency and in her first year there was a 79 percent decline in enforcement cases, and a 69 percent drop in cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.

It took Congress years to overturn her cuts to the "Clean Air Act" on everything from automobiles to furniture manufactures.

Finally, Gorsuch resigned her office to avoid prosecution for what Newsweek described as a "Nasty scandal involving political manipulation, Superfund mismanagement, perjury, and destruction of subpoenaed documents," among other things.

Her son Neil was in college at the time and was enraged that she resigned. He, like Trump later on, believed in plowing through scandals and not resigning regardless of how severe the charges.

Years later, Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and the mission of revenge for his mommy was underway.

To achieve Neil's goal, he and at least three other Republicans on the court appear hell-bent for leather to turn regulatory agency rule-making upside-down.

The first strike came in June 2022 when a group of right-wing justices, including Neil, overturned rules made by the EPA about CO2 emissions from power plants in the West Virginia Vs EPA decision.

The coal-, oil-, and natural gas-fired power plant industry has been celebrating ever since.

With Amy Coney Barrett (appointed by Trump) whose father was a lawyer for Shell Oil for decades, we have John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh (appointed by Trump) who are all on the court in part because of support from a network funded by the fossil fuel billionaires and their industry (among others).

We must not forget "on the take" Clarence Thomas who flip-flopped on the subject for a while before joining his corrupt peers.

More to come.

In an upcoming case the Supreme Court is explicitly preparing to expand their victory by blowing up the entire Chevron defense (a law protecting the EPA's rights) out of the water.

The Biden administration has stepped up the EPA's defense. They have a hard fight ahead against a corrupt Supreme Court that has chosen to sell out average Americans for their sick ideology and greed.

As it stands, you probably aren't going to hear much about this issue until a decision is made next year. By then it'll be too late to do anything about it.