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.
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.
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.
It’s a good thing NOBODY WHO WOULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT FROM THIS has given Thomas Gifts Bribes or ANYTHING to sway his Judgement!
✨ gratuities ✨
Yeah they’re okay, just sometimes, as a little treat.
This is how we’ll get the next Bhopal or Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster
Judges shouldn’t have agendas, just dockets.
Can we make people who vote for lack of safety regulations work affected jobs for about a year or so? How’d you think they’d vote then?
No, they make the rules and would never agree to that, just like they always vote to give themselves raises and amazing healthcare while fighting to prevent the rest of us from getting adequate pay or healthcare.
I used to argue that whoever was ultimately responsible for safety at a chemical plant should be required to have them and their family live close enough that if shot goes wrong, they’ll definitely be among the worst effected.
But then I live within the greater Charleston, WV area, and there’s a plant in a town called Institute here that makes and handles MIC, most notoriously known for being made less poisonous for use as pesticide and being the stuff that leaked and caused the Bhopal incident back when.
People should sue for damages if they have a case. Same for the Supreme Court ruling, I guess? It would make sense if someone sues the SC for something they suffer
They have immunity for the effect of their rulings (unless it’s criminal corruption involved, but they get to decide for themselves that it’s just “gratuities”, unless congress impeach them)
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.
Of course Clarence, the most openly corrupt, would be the one to dissent against the OSHA case. Clarence can go fuck himself
Working in the chemical industry, this statement is horrifying.
Take a look for yourself:
https://m.youtube.com/user/USCSB
A fucking judge who sits on his ass all day, “interpreting” the constitution like he’s some fucking oracle, wouldn’t even begin to understand.
I did Asbestos removal for awhile years ago. I cannot imagine not having OSHA. The amount of crap companies get away with with OSHA around is already absurd.
If they believe congress shouldn’t have the authority to delegate authority so broad then the way fix isn’t to eliminate the delegation but to require that congress reviews the regulatory agencies to see if they’re acting as according to their intent (yes there’s risk of abuse for this too, like endless micromanaging, etc, this is just to defuse the constitutionality argument)
Just read a bunch of audit results and discuss relevant court cases involving the varies agencies in front of congress and let them rubberstamp it
I had no idea of this entity, but I work with enough similarly, highly nuanced public professionals that I recognize that the rapid and blind “immediately destroy all gubberment” approach will have widespread oh-holy-fuck consequenes if not just for the extensive brain vacuum potentially left in the wake of this type of growing mentality. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective.
I mean, do we not remember when companies were literally locking employees into buildings as they come down in a raging inferno?
More than once?
I wanted to post this channel for a long list of reason, broken down in a forensic manner, as to why this is a bad idea, glad others were here, and thinking the same.
Wow I love reading about these wacky sovcits. They always say the most silly things.
Wait, what? WHO said that? Justice of which court?
The program for rolling back hard fought union victories is going full steam ahead.
I suppose the American worker could wake up to the reality that the protection against utter abuse for no pay didn’t just appear out of thin air and that only their fellow worker can be relied upon to stick for them.
Ah, but the police force got much better and stronger since back in those days so good look going back to protesting to get those rights back,
Plus splitting people over insane conspiracies keeps them weak and easier to control so Americans are less likely to stick together and fight the real enemy: the billionaires.
They will lay off middle class American workers, then bring in H1B visa workers to replace them at half the cost, then blame immigrants for taking their jobs. Then blame border security and terrorism.
I suppose the American worker could wake up to the reality that the protection against utter abuse for no pay didn’t just appear out of thin air
Are you kidding? The Budweiser and Marlboro crowd will be told it is the fault of some brown people so they will double down on their hate and donations to elect a dictator who will “solve” their problems
That is the plan. Clarence Thomas is owned by
billionersparasites that want a feudalism system in their corporations.
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.
Is Clarence Thomas okay, like upstairs? Does he just go around pointing at random things and screaming “Unconstitutional!” ? Is “unconstitutional” in the room with us right now?
Artist’s Rendition:
His donors point and he attacks
If you want an in-depth profile on how Thomas’ political views are shaped, check out the PBS Frontline documentary on him.
Last year, WNYC had an episode of their More Perfect podcast all about Thomas and, more or less, how he got that way.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/clarence-x
Fanart of artist rendition:
I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.
I hope he finds a missing guard rail and falls to his death.
With our luck, it’ll happen after Trump is reelected
I hope he gets on a private jet with 5 other justices and some of his billionaire buddies for a trip to some tropical resort only for the plane to
get shot down through a president’s official actsuddenly go down, totally unexpectedly.Bermuda Triangle!
I hear the Titanic Wreck is a lovely place to visit this time of year…
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.
