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.
Ah crap I first read it as HOA and that would be positive at least.
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?
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
I think it’s about losing fingers and counting strategies.
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.
Judges shouldn’t have agendas, just dockets.
Clarence Thomas is unconstitutional. By his own originalist logic, he is only 3/5 of a human and should not be married to a white woman.
Fuck Clarence Thomas.
He is a straight up real life Clayton BigsbyA puppet
OSHA just adds cost to any construction project that isn’t needed.
OSHA is better than dead workers littering the worksite.
In case you’re not just trying to harvest downvotes (hey, everyone needs a hobby); That’s a stupid fucking take.
So does your mom.
You forgot this: /s.
At least I fuckin’ hope so.
Jug Jug Biggs over here.
I hope so. I kinda like SatansMag…ugghh…i can’t even say it.
Sometimes they can be funny, but also legit have the absolute worst takes
You’ll say that until you fall off a ledge without a guard rail
Like working on the Death Star.
Hey, speaking as a construction worker, get fucked. OSHA keeps people like me alive. Just get fucked. I cannot express this passionately enough.
It’s just a bad troll account, but yeah fr
There is no record of this comment 😉
he frequently does this batshit insane stuff, and yet, for some reason, this fuckup has a fan following on Lemmy.
There is seriously a few accounts on here where they are just shit stains saying horrible shit and bullying people but they are on 24/7 and people just upvote because they look strong and sometimes say things that feel smart or empowering.
If you ever want to know how Trump got to power just look around.
That is so completely insane. Do you know how many workplace injuries and deaths were eliminated because of things OSHA put in place?
So does a worksite death or injury.
Just not nearly as much, and most importantly they are held much less accountable for those things without OSHA or similar oversight…
Is Clarence Thomas okay? Does he just go around pointing at random things and screaming “Unconstitutional!” ? Is “unconstitutional” in the room with us right now?
Artist’s Rendition:
Fanart of artist rendition:
I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.
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
His donors point and he attacks
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.
Eliminate him if you want a cleaner court
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.
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.
That’s why I said only notable changes should need preemptive review (if any), everything else that’s standard procedure would just be documented and OK’d after
I agree it would have very bad consequences if the agency would get blocked entirely from acting
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.
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.
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.
One would think that that an elderly judge would appreciate hand rail regulations.
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.
What a big fat fucking nigger. He doesn’t seem to remember how people his color were treated no even a hundred years ago.
The program for rolling back hard fought union victories is going full steam ahead.
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.
