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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.

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 199 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

He is a straight up real life Clayton Bigsby

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 122 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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:

[-] misericordiae@literature.cafe 34 points 5 days ago

Fanart of artist rendition:

Lemongrab from Adventure Time, yelling. The caption reads, "UNCONSTITUTIONAL!"

I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 44 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 46 points 5 days ago

is unconstitutional

At this point I'm seeing a pattern. Any time someone good has to be removed so that pure evil shit can take it's place, the argument almost always includes at least "is unconstitutional"

Guys, GUYS! Your constitution.... Sucks. Same as your founding fathers. The US constitution is a document that was cool a few hundred years ago, but it is heavily outdated and at this point an actual new one really wouldn't be a bad idea. Yeah yeah, the original document doesn't suck, at least not in historic context, and definitely should be kept in a museum but stop effin quoting the damn thing as it it were Gods personao commandments. Get a new constitution for the 21st century.

Your founding fathers were okay, of course, but stop treating them as if they were infallible gods. They weren't. Im sure that for their time they were super smart and their ideas revolutionary, but that was centuries ago and a lot of their ideas no longer fly.

The right to bear arms (insert joke about bear arms) was written when an arm was a musket, that would take (a) minute(s) to load a single bullet that then could barely hit a target and had the penetration power of my penis. Now we have AR15's for children who can murder double digits other children through multiple walls within double digit seconds and basically half the country thinks this is perfectly fine and quotes that two hundred year old line as the infallible reason why.

It's okay. Your constitution WAS great hundreds of years ago and yeah, your founding fathers WERE awesome. They both live two hundred years away from the situation we face today. The world changed. The US changed. Science changed. Everything changed and got updated. Your constitution got a few updates but at this point could use a rewrite. You know, something healthy to start over fresh.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

Rewriting the constitution is part of their plan but I very much doubt the changes they want to make are good for anyone but them.

[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I mean, the big philosophical divide between liberal and conservative judges is usually whether or not the constitution is a "living" document. That is, whether it can be interpreted through a modern lens, or if laws must be strictly limited by what is exactly written in the document.

I would argue that it's easily the former, since, one, they explicitly allow amendments to the Constitution, and, two, there is a session of the Bill of Rights where they basically say, "we can't possibly list all the rights that people are entitled to. This list is by no means comprehensive, and just because something isn't in here, it doesn't mean we've left it out on purpose."

I agree that the constitution is very flawed, and that we would probably be better off without it, but one thing they were very clear on: no kings. The Trump immunity ruling was not only legal nonsense, it was clearly not an originalist interpretation (what the conservatives claim to be.)

When you take into account all of the rulings that this current court has made, it's quite clear that they just start with the conclusion that they want, and reason backwards to get the justification. Once you're at that point, I'm not sure that it really matters what your legal system is based on; they're just doing make-em-ups anyway.

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[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago

They won't stop. By 2025 they will reinstate the crime of heresy. Mark my words.

[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I believe you

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] t_chalco@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

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.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 71 points 5 days ago

I wonder how much money his handlers paid for that position.

[-] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 days ago

They got him cheap, the man is a bargain whore… actually, I take that back, I wouldn’t want to insult prostitutes.

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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 36 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Speaking of good old days, I think we should bring slavery back, but only for Clarence.

1/2 /j

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

I volunteer Thomas to run a lathe and see what happens when safety regulations aren't enforced.

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[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago

"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

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Coming soon: the freedom to be maimed by corporations cutting corners on dangerous equipment design and safety equipment provision.

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[-] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 5 days ago

I hope he finds a missing guard rail and falls to his death.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

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 act~~ suddenly go down, totally unexpectedly.

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

Judges shouldn't have agendas, just dockets.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just remember guys, the supreme court isn't corrupted by billionaires they just happen to only want to do things that benefit the ultra wealthy. The gifts from mega rich people to Thomas mean nothing.

ItS jUsT a cOiNcIdEnCe...

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 39 points 5 days ago

Of course Clarence, the most openly corrupt, would be the one to dissent against the OSHA case. Clarence can go fuck himself

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

I assume soon we will be getting rid of the weekend and the 40-hour work week.

We're already letting children work jobs that maim and kill them again.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Of course! That's what family values are all about! Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Anyone notice that the prez can have this guy killed with no consequences?

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

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?

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 21 points 5 days ago

It's a good thing NOBODY WHO WOULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT FROM THIS has given Thomas Gifts Bribes or ANYTHING to sway his Judgement!

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Wow I love reading about these wacky sovcits. They always say the most silly things.

Wait, what? WHO said that? Justice of which court?

[-] Junkhead@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 days ago
[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

They should eliminate him

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago

This has always been a Republican dream. If people are not dying on the job are they really working hard enough?

[-] uis@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

Boy am I gonna miss being able to easily multiply by nine

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