Today I came to the sobering realization that right-wingers can now repeal literally any law they don't like by just challenging it in a lower court and then appealing it all they way up to the Supreme Court. In this way, the SCOTUS is effectively acting as a legislative body. The system is broken. I don't think people realize just how fucked America is.
@Phracker2Art No, that's not how this works at all.
It's really the opposite, in fact.
Recent rulings demand that laws be followed and not effectively repealed by the executive branch.
So much misinformation out there these days, and this is an example of it. It's the exact opposite of what it sounds like you've heard, so you need to stop listening to those people that are lying to you.
@volkris Is that why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are trying to have the entire NLRB declared unconstitutional and subsequently dissolved so they'll be allowed to underpay and overwork their employees with complete impunity?
@Phracker2Art having the nlrb declared unconstitutional would not allow them to break the law and underpay their employees.
So no?
That's not how that works.
@volkris You're nitpicking. The broader point is that they're using the tactic of challenging a law in the lower courts and then appealing all the way up to the Supreme Court to repeal any law that governs how they treat their employees.
@Phracker2Art It's not nitpicking because pointing it out completely undermines the claim that they would be able to underpay their employees.
If you're saying that's the mechanism by which they would underpay employees than it really matters that the mechanism you're identifying doesn't exist.
No, challenging that law would not lead to the result that you bring up, so it's core to what you're saying.
@volkris The claim that they are doing it specifically because they want to underpay their employees wasn't my central argument, so it is nitpicking.
@Phracker2Art then I don't understand what your central argument is.
What are you trying to say?
@volkris My central argument is specifically what I said in the OP - that people are using the tactic of challenging laws in lower courts and then appealing all the way up to the Supreme Court to repeal laws they don't like (because they force them to treat their employees with basic dignity for example).