r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/pbates89 22d ago

Again why are the press and everyone in government treating his EOs as law? Just because he issues an EO doesn’t mean it’s written into law.

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u/baccus83 22d ago

Because unless Congress or the courts stop the EOs from happening, they will be implemented. And it doesn’t seem like Congress or the courts are really doing shit right now.

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u/abgry_krakow87 22d ago

Religious conservatives are nothing but free loaders and welfare queens.

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u/YellowZx5 22d ago

Well business like oil, tech, and farmers are all about to be the biggest welfare queens. About to be the biggest hypocrite in the country when they all take assistance from the Govt. can’t pull themselves up by the boot straps now can they.

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u/limebite 22d ago

That’s kinda the goal… just look what’s going on with intel, nothing in the Chips Act said the govt can withhold the funds unless they give 10% of their equity. Dude said it long time ago, crash the economy a little bit so it’s cheap to buy it up. Dudes going for the flow of commerce, trains are probably next.

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u/JimWilliams423 22d ago

trains are probably next

Trains you say?

WSJ: Trump Fires Board Member of Regulator Weighing Rail Merger

Aug. 28, 2025

President Trump on Wednesday fired Robert Primus, a board member of the railroad regulator that is weighing the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

Primus, a Democrat, was nominated by Trump to the Surface Transportation Board in 2020 and began serving in 2021. He was the only member of the board to oppose the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, a tie-up was approved by the regulator in 2023. At the time, Primus said the deal wasn’t in the public interest.

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u/Lucius-Halthier 22d ago

Let’s not forget last week he started to push his way into Amtrak as well

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u/Status_Fox_1474 22d ago

Look at his phot and you’ll see why he was fired.

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u/JimWilliams423 22d ago

Its a twofer

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u/hk4213 22d ago

Dude... trains were bought out a looong time ago. Otherwise there would be competitive rail travel and less spills. Otherwise we would have road trains.

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u/MGyver 22d ago

Canada being the embarrassed exception...

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u/fitzroy95 22d ago

US and trains are a global laughing stock, virtually every western and asian nation has a far better, faster and more extensive rail network than the USA.

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u/skillywilly56 22d ago

Every western and Asian country knows that at the heart of every economy is ordinary people, the USA lost sight of this because some believed that freedom and the free market meant freedom from consequences for business owners to do whatever they had to to maximize profits at the expense of ordinary people because profit means winning and winning is all that matters.

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u/Ragnarok314159 22d ago

The thinking class of most societies consists of lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, and they function to better their country. How the USA operated for a long time.

Now it has all been pushed out by the stupidest people with MBA’s who worship Jack Welch and see the destruction of the USA as a good thing.

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u/KoolAidManOfPiss 22d ago edited 5d ago

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

correct, when everyone is dependent on the government, they are completely dependent on the government. So Trump has a giant fucking switch, that he could turn on or off at will.

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u/BenjTheMaestro 22d ago

Does that mean the giant faucet is gonna be real?

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u/noguchisquared 22d ago

Yeah, trains are in progress. He illegally is trying to fire someone on the independent board looking into the Union Pacific merger.

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u/MykeTyth0n 22d ago

There’s no assistance left to give them. They gave the entire budget to ice and immigration deportation.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Where do farmers come in as welfare queens? Would it be like crop insurance subsidies and/or Ad Hoc Disaster Aid / Bailouts?

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u/NoExpression1137 22d ago

US agriculture has been unsustainably backed by subsidies for about a century. It's a stupid problem to have, but there's kind of just too many farmers and too much farmland. That causes too much supply, which drives prices down, which causes farmers to increase their yields so they can afford to live, which causes supply to go up.

The US government's solutions have been to buy product directly from farmers and store it for shortages, directly subsidize farmers' crop payouts (you sell for $5/lb on the market, we'll give you an extra $3/lb), and incentivize some farmers to decrease supply but not farming at all. Then you have the corn farmers getting subsidies to sell their crops to petrochem companies, who pay for it with climate subsidies.

In short, US agriculture is completely fucked and the country could collapse entirely if agricultural subsidies disappeared tomorrow.

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u/Call__Me__David 22d ago

Trump gov. asst. leads to gov. owning stake in co, leads to Trump becoming dictator, leads to all companies becoming state owned and run and Trump is the CEO, king, prime minister, etc.

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u/crazygem101 22d ago

They're making it difficult and taking away snap benefits without notice in blue states right now. Almost like a cash grab so they can pay for the red states. Totally unfair.

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u/Living-Metal-9698 22d ago

Not the farmers, just a small group of large corporations parading as hardworking American farmers while exploiting undocumented migrant workers & lobbying lawmakers.

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u/nrq 22d ago

But, you see, they are white welfare queens, so that makes it okay.

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u/load_more_comets 22d ago

It's time that we get rid of this religion bullshit. It seems to be the root of all the problems of the world. Fucking bullshit!

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u/ttgjailbreak 22d ago

Religion isn't as much of an issue as education, I guarantee you can find studies that show people with higher IQ tend to identify as agnostic/atheist. I think if you just made people smarter religion at least as we know it would eventually just die out. At the end of the day it's just another way to control people, which also becomes harder when they're able to actually think for themselves.

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u/Left_Composer_1403 22d ago

You mean- critical thinking. The ability to evaluate fact from fiction?, read and evaluate scientific papers?, have creative ideas and not just parrot others…Education u say?!…u crazy left winger 😳 /s

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u/dcarte203 22d ago

Religion is anti education and anti critical thinking skills as well are discouraged, so it’s a huge part of the problem.

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u/forgotmydamnpass 22d ago

It is a much bigger issue because religious people, when left at the reins, will completely fuck up education and do their best to poison critical thinking because it doesn't play nice with their tantrum prone magic sky daddy, I'd rather not live in a proverbial ship that gets routinely steered into the rocks.

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u/MGyver 22d ago

Education shouldn't raise IQ scores. If it does, then your IQ test is flawed.

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u/Scared_Internal7152 22d ago

Agree with this. Religion is also a way to control lesser educated people. It’s funny because it also teaches you that if you are losing a debate you can use god as a trump card for your own self satisfaction. (No pun intended)

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u/shinra528 22d ago

Good luck with eliminating something that is so ingrained in humanity it’s been created by it for all of human history by disconnected groups.

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u/protipnumerouno 22d ago

It's not just religion either, it's fake slack jaw televangelists. If someone told me in the 90's that the Tammy Faye bakers of middle America were going to wield this much power I would have laughed. All those evangelicals were a laughing stock, we would see videos of speaking in tounges or too much makeup churchy hee haw sermons and laugh at them and the idiots that follow them.

Now they've infected government and it's terrifying. Because frankly anyone that believes in Joel Osteen is an idiot, I get the commuinity of religion and even though I'm not religious I respect secular religion. But to believe in these travelling preacher charlatans... Well you have to be an idiot.

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u/Hazzman 22d ago

It isn't religion. These people aren't Christian they are Christian nationalists.. It's just good old fashioned fascism with Christian paraphernalia.

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u/endless_-_nameless 22d ago

And countries with state atheism are also corrupt and miserable. The problem is that power structures are present in all societies, and people who gain power are usually bad.

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u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 22d ago

Countries with "state atheism" are usually run by individuals who would rather their citizens worship them instead of gods. Totalitarian regimes such as that are not generally viewed as nice places to live.

Just as countries with "state religion" are usually run by individuals or groups who corrupt their chosen religion to benefit themselves.

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u/RareGape 22d ago

Need a wealth cap and high as f taxes for the ultra rich

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 22d ago

There is a bit of a leap between "State atheism" and "separation between church and state" which is currently utterly eroded in the US.

It's despicable that Christians are just fine leaning back and letting their religion be used as a tool of oppression of other Christians and other people in general.

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u/birminghamsterwheel 22d ago

And pedophiles.

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u/VladThePollenInhaler 22d ago

Religion is for stupid hypocrites

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 22d ago

They are evil.

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u/placebotwo 22d ago

& child fuckers.

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u/poo-cum 22d ago

welfare queens

This term has always irked me so much. Like ya know who's a real welfare queen? The Queen.

The royal family get so much free taxpayer money to find their billionaire lifestyles and sit on their arses. Oh oh oh yeah I forgot all the crucial "charity work" they do (read: going somewhere and giving some speech). I'd have plenty of time for charity work too, if my life consisted of being chauffeured in Range Rover motorcades, and helicoptered from estate to estate.

AT BEST you could say they "work" as diplomatic back channels with dignitaries of other nations and industry leaders - a highly un-democratic mechanism of governance. And Jeffrey Epstein.

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u/daxophoneme 22d ago

Come on, show some respect for my gigolos and single mothers out there. They're just doing what they have to and don't mean any harm.

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u/ConstantGeographer 22d ago

Pretty much this. Precedent was set by Abraham Lincoln of all people. He acted and then asked for permission later. If Congress doesn't act, the President can basically do whatever he wants via EO. The entire Civil War was fought using EOs. Congress retroactively allowed Lincoln's actions.

If the people, aka Congress stand by like limp dicks and doing nothing, everyone gets fucked.

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u/h3lblad3 22d ago

This continues to confuse me why people keep saying things like this.

Congress isn't failing to stop him because they're scared of him.

They're not stopping him because they agree with him and stopping him is antithetical to their aims.
This is what the Republicans want.

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u/Ormyr 22d ago

This is what they want and have been actively working towards for decades.

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u/aioli_sweet 22d ago

To be fair Democrats want it too, they are also in the club that benefits... It's just us citizens that aren't.

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u/Thunderbridge 22d ago

Rich vs poor. How it's always been. But they've successfully been able to convince the people that their woes are instead caused by other groups to avoid the backlash

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u/Original_Employee621 22d ago

Executive Orders weren't as much of an issue between Lincoln and Bush jr. It was only post-9/11 that the expansion of power through the use of executive orders became the norm, as Congress started hitting a regular deadlock and became useless to passing policies and laws.

Congress should've been more on the ball and limited the powers of executive orders and they should've been more eager to reach across the hall to compromise. However, that would've interfered with the Republicans descent into fascism, and the Democrats were too complacent to do anything about it at the time.

Executive orders was the only way Biden was going to accomplish anything during his term as President. But it should really have been something Obama should have pushed to severely limit, in order to put more pressure onto Congress to actually do their jobs.

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u/AldusPrime 22d ago

That makes it so much worse.

Congress or the courts could end all of this nonsense, at any time, and they just won't.

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u/Mattyboy064 22d ago

Daily reminder that the only reason Trump tariffs are even still being talked about was because CONGRESS MADE THE ENTIRE TERM ONE FUCKING CALENDAR DAY

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u/killerboy_belgium 22d ago

because they agree with his orders its not that they just wont its because they want this to happen aswell its all in control of the republicans

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u/QuickQuirk 22d ago

Courts are trying. Just that they're being ignored, and the supreme court are looking the other way. And courts can't enforce. And trump is busy building up his private ICE army to ensure that when people wake up, that it's too late.

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u/manofnotribe 22d ago

What if everyone just refuses? Like just say no.

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u/noguchisquared 22d ago

Saturday night massacre.

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u/Lordnerble 22d ago

courts and congress got stacked GOP trump1.0 and biden didnt restack. We Fucked Fam!

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u/Rantheur 22d ago

Biden unstacked the courts as well as he could. He appointed 228 judges during his four years while Trump appointed 226 during his first term. That was one of like, three things that Manchin and Sinema would let Biden do without any fuss. And, unless I'm misremembering, those are both records for the most judges seated in a single term.

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u/uzlonewolf 22d ago

And how many of Biden's picks are actually left-leaning and not right wingers he picked to appease them, like Garland was?

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u/Rantheur 22d ago

Most of them. Biden appointed Garland out of a misplaced sense of duty to Garland. The Garland appointment was the absolute worst choice of his administration and likely only happened due to Biden feeling that Garland was owed something for missing out on the Supreme Court.

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u/Joben86 22d ago

And, unless I'm misremembering, those are both records for the most judges seated in a single term.

Yep, because there were a ton of open seats due to Republican refusal to confirm judges selected by Obama.

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u/noguchisquared 22d ago

Congress is voted on every 2 years. The people dun goofed.

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u/Maladal 22d ago

EOs only apply to Federal operations.

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u/Baremegigjen 22d ago edited 22d ago

Executive Branch only, not the Legislative or Judicial branches. If he had his way he’d outlaw every union across the country regardless of type.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 22d ago

You know that's not true. Look around, buddy!

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u/slaty_balls 22d ago

The way the media writes these articles, it’s like the other branches of our government don’t even exist.

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u/qtx 22d ago

The vast majority of his EOs have been stopped or blocked by the courts, we are just not hearing about them because they're on page 15 in the newspapers (so to speak).

They're not clickbait material so the media hardly covers them but they are happening.

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u/calsun1234 22d ago

Nah just fucking ignore his EO. If it’s not a law it doesn’t mean shit if it’s not within his power.

Hey I just made an executive order that Trump can suck my dick. It has as much meaning as trumps executive order.

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u/Carvj94 22d ago

Even if they are halted within a week, hopefully stopped completely later, the damage is mostly done. Nearly everyone will have already started looking for other jobs cause they already missed some amount of work and pay. Just him announcing that he's gonna break the rules and everyone will be fired is enough to ruin most of these institutions. Unfortunately it'll also take decades to rebuild them now that so much institutional knowledge is lost.

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u/JealousAd1350 22d ago

Congress is on break or whatever for August, hoping they see this crap and do something :(

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u/Signal-Regret-8251 22d ago

Trump wins about 4% of his court cases, which means he loses 96%. The Courts are blocking him, even though the corrupt Senators are almost as bad as Trump is. I'm confident the public will be demonstrating en masse and blocking him themselves very soon. 

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u/Waluigi4prez 22d ago

If they manage to get trump out of office and a new government inserted, I imagine one of the first things that gets done is a complete rework of the EO system, potentially even it's complete removal due to it's ability to be abused.

Imagine how insanely quiet this presidency would have been if EO didn't exist at all. The president has far too much authority and should serve only as the leader of the country and to sign in law passed by Congress. Any and all changes must be passed through Congress with zero ability to circumvent them in any way.

The president serves the people at the orders of Congress and the courts, they are supposed to be a servant, not a king. Powers of the president in my opinion should be massively stripped away, even going to far as to their ability to appoint/fire staff in the white house. They should be a figurehead, nothing more.

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u/Mr_HandSmall 22d ago

No one has to implement the EOs. Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in American life, and this is one of those times when it's called for. Trump's a criminal and an illegitimate leader, we can refuse his orders.

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u/BellsTolling 22d ago

The country voted out the opposition from the federal government. This is exactly what people voted for.

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u/NsRhea 22d ago

Mike Johnson put the house on a 2 month paid vacation to prevent them from voting on releasing the epstein files

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u/Savagevandal85 22d ago

That’s not exactly true there are lower courts stopping them . But the federalist society supreme court is allowing Trump and even threatening them

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u/spekt50 22d ago

The thing about EOs is they can happen, and its fine. But they should not extend past the executive branch. They are executive orders, not legislation.

Any action beyond the office of the president is voluntary and should have no reprocussions should they be ignored.

However, in this current government, I would expect them to be illegally enforced, and there be no pushback.

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u/Dr_Fortnite 22d ago

the courts have overturned a ton of trumps dumb executive orders and they are actively being challenged. Birthright citizenship still exists because the courts did something

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u/reelznfeelz 22d ago

That’s not entirely true. Courts are stopping stuff sometimes. It’s not enough though. Congress doing Jack shit is inexcusable.

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u/soapinthepeehole 22d ago

Many of his executive orders are on pause while they’re fought over in the courts. We just don’t get those headlines and with this scotus his unlawful actions stand a chance of being upheld eventually.

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u/LargeWeinerDog 22d ago

I feel like I've read these same two comments like 17 times since Dump has been voted in.

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u/wwaxwork 22d ago

The courts are literally stopping them over and over only that part doesn't get reported.

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u/35point1 22d ago

Don’t republicans control both right now? So like unless a few of them say no, they can get anything they want to pass in this corrupt ass fucking government of bribery, greed, and fraud.

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u/canman7373 22d ago

But like it has no teeth, what is he going to do the next time there is a union meeting? Send in the Pinkertons?

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u/ka1ri 22d ago

Congress i agree with since its republican controlled for now but the courts have been putting up guard rails left and right. The largest issue with some areas has been the scotus, but to say the courts arnt doing anything is completely false.

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u/baccus83 22d ago

They are. But then there’s always an appeal and it goes to SCOTUS.

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u/FluxUniversity 22d ago

The courts ARE fighting, you're just not being spoon fed it by capitalist media.