Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has set his sights on eliminating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced which cases it would consider next and which it wouldn’t. Among those the court rejected was a case that challenged the authority of OSHA, which sets and enforces standards for health and safety in the workplace.
And Thomas, widely considered to be the most conservative justice on the already mostly conservative court, wasn’t happy.
In a dissent, he explained why he believed the high court should’ve taken the case: OSHA’s power, he argues, is unconstitutional.
Bezoz took him on holiday, probably
The solution to Amazon’s recruitment problems: slavery. Just chain the suckers to the warehouse and you don’t have to worry about them running away any more. And if one croaks from the heat, you won’t even have to bother covering the body any more.
The corpse disposal robot will be along soon, don’t worry.
Your body will be repurposed as energy for the factory.
Omnissiah be praised!
Now you mention it, maybe it would be more profitable to use the bodies as food. Gotta get someone to make a spreadsheet.
So, as a dumb question, what would it take for all rule-making bodies to be under the legislative branch instead of the executive branch? Do you devolve the responsibility to one house only? Do you require elected officials on these committees or can you devolve these tasks to a legislative controlled body?
Killing chevron was the biggest step already. Now corpos just have to chip away with lawsuits.
I understand that. I’m just wondering if you can push these rulemaking bodies to the legislative branch and what it would look like.
Oh the bodies themselves. Uhh, I think congress could hypothetically empower them because it’s their laws being interpreted, but Republicans won’t go for it.
This is how we’ll get the next Bhopal or Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster
“The agency claims authority to regulate everything from a power lawnmower’s design,” he wrote, “to the level of ‘contact between trainers and whales at SeaWorld.’”
I fail to see anything wrong with either thing like… is he just mad it is not the people who sell lawn mowers should decide what’s safe?? Please please please don’t tell me Americans are going to dip to this new level of cognitive dissonance
Not speaking to policy but law, he’s probably hinting that this is a violation of the non delegation doctrine.
Coming soon: the freedom to be maimed by corporations cutting corners on dangerous equipment design and safety equipment provision.
Lawn darts are back on the menu boys
I miss lawn darts, but the ban made sense. Holy hell, people were stupid with those things.
Eliminate him if you want a cleaner court
One would think that that an elderly judge would appreciate hand rail regulations.
Every little while ( more frequently these days) i hear the voice of Anita Hill in my head.
Clarence won’t stop until he’s been able to put one of his pubes on everyone’s soda can
That’s why he wants to eliminate OSHA. They’d call it a health hazard.
Thomas just wants everyone to be as miserable as him. Fuck the workers! Make them feel the pain! The rest of the conservative zombies aren’t as addled as him though and realize they have to keep the facade of beneficial capitalism going until climate disasters kill us all. Then they’ll cancel OSHA.
Nah, he js just doing the bidding of his corporate masters. He couldnt give a flying fuck about ideology, he just likes the money they hand him for doing this.
Yeah, but then there’s this.
Take a look at any of the CSB’s post-accident summary and recommendation videos and you’ll see why OSHA is so important. These regulations are written in blood.
Just trying to bring it back to the good old days when children yearned for the mines, and men got blended up in industrial machinery.
I volunteer Thomas to run a lathe and see what happens when safety regulations aren’t enforced.
A lathe would straighten him out, he wouldn’t be caught dead near one.
But hopefully he’ll be caught dead in one.
I don’t agree with wishing death on anyone.
Years of horrible torture is a much worse experience for them.
Speaking of good old days, I think we should bring slavery back, but only for Clarence.
1/2 /j
Oh great. An old man who simply is getting rid of protections for average people because all he hears is how it hurts the profit margins of his good friends the uber wealthy.
We really are just heading to a split society of no class mobility and no real consideration of the poor from the rich.
And yet they wonder why the country is collapsing and people don’t really want to have kids anymore.
Boy am I gonna miss being able to easily multiply by nine
That took me a second LOL Well done!
I don’t get it. Can you explain please?
I think it’s about losing fingers and counting strategies.
There’s a hand / finger trick to multiply by nine, but it only works if you have all 10 of your fingers. If OSHA is eliminated, workplace accidents which could result in finger / hand loss would increase.
Your link isn’t working, here’s another explanation: https://www.wikihow.com/Multiply-With-Your-Hands
It’s the first time I heard about this
TLDR: It may be unconstitutional in his opinion because of the Non Delegation Doctrine stemming from:
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress…
Basically Congress can’t just go and let the Executive branch do their job. The Executive can’t make new laws only enforce the existing ones.
We do have a problem with executive power creep so like there’s a world where I’m on board for non-delegation but there just is a reality that some questions are too small, detailed, and nuanced to expect a new bill out of Congress each time.
So like setting new tariffs, should be a congressional action and it was improperly delegated. Determining whether a new ladder is safe for workers, can be delegated.
This is my rub with Clarence in general. On paper I agree with a very hardline reading of the constitution cause what else is it there for. We’re far too allergic to making constitutional amendments and laws and have built up a house of cards that gets toppled every time the administration changes.
However, practically speaking, there’s too many actual lives depending on supreme court decisions and delegated regulations to wait for congress to do something about it (if they aren’t stalled outright by lobbying and party opposition). If the overturning of such decisions is meant to light a fire under the ass of the legislative branch, it operates much too slowly to protect the vulnerable people who suffer in the interim. Delegation is the only reason we have a (relatively) safe and clean place to live.
Like I said elsewhere, just make congress review use of delegated authority regularly and rubberstamp it if the agency is acting reasonably, otherwise they just give new directives wherever they deem fit.
They might even let agencies notify select members of congress when changing any notable rules so they can decide if they want to call a legislative session or just OK it.
That respects the division of powers in the constitution while still letting regulatory agencies do their jobs
The problem is that congress doesn’t do anything quickly (unless it’s giving themselves a raise). That’s the whole reason delegation was needed, because they’re so slow to actually pass specific laws. Previously, the rule was that any ambiguity in the law could be interpreted as needed by the relevant agency. That way the law can be “companies need to ensure a certain level of safety for workers” and OSHA with their panel of experts can figure out the details of what precautions are needed where. Even if a rubber stamp is all that would be needed, they have a huge backlog of regulations to get through and a lot of companies that will fight tooth and nail to save a bit of money on safety equipment. If the SCOTUS takes such a case and rules against OSHA’s authority, you best believe there will be blood on their hands.
There needs to be a statute of limitations on how long the Supreme Court can reverse things. They can’t change things 40 years after the fact when entire agencies have been built and society has restructured around the previous ruling.
The problem with that is Korematsu v. US was decided in 1944 and is technically still the law as no subsequent cases have come up to overturn it.
Is he sure he wants that if Trump gets into power?
He’s been writing about it long before 2016 so I’d imagine so.
Yeah, but that was before Project 2025.
You think he cares?
He usually cares about what the people who bribe him want and they want Project 2025.
The two party system has resulted in grid lock on anything pf actual value like codifying in law the things the SCOTUS has been rolling back. We’ve rested on our laurels for it to all be undone.
Ah crap I first read it as HOA and that would be positive at least.
I hope Putin will be sent to Hauge(or die) BEFORE USA spontaniously combusts. Then Russia can do russian reversal on american brain drain.
Until then, consider EU.
