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Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality (hollywoodreporter.com)
Repealing net neutrality wasn't enough for the Trump administration. Today, the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a 2016 appeal court ruling that had upheld Obama era net neutrality rules that barred ISPs from blocking, throttling, or prioritizing content. Reuters reports: The request was made even though the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to toss out the 2015 rules late last year, rendering the fight over their legality moot. In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the question for the court was "whether the now-superseded 2015 order was invalid because it exceeded the FCC's statutory authority, was arbitrary and capricious, was promulgated without adequate public notice, or violated the First Amendment."
the current Supreme Court is stacked against government regulation of any kind. That is by design. We've been electing right wing presidents since I was born (yes, both Obama and Clinton, especially Clinton, were on the right wing). As the saying goes, Elections have consequences. America continues to choose candidates who oppose government regulation and favor leaving things up to the markets. We should stop acting surprised when that happens just because they're striking down a regulation we happen to like.
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Germany here. This kind of ... well ... dictating, is when our government back then crossed the line into a dictatorship.
Like with an event horizon, you aren't aware you crossed it, at the time of it happening. But later on, you realize that this was the point where you would have had to stop it or die trying.
So please take care of yourselves over there. Especially the convenient scapegoat fringe groups. Don't believe what you are being told about "communists/socialists/democrats/republicans/libertarians/muslims/christians/jews".
Sounds like they want clarification on how, exactly, the FCC fucked up so they can use that against them in the future.
Sounds to me like they want to get a ruling to prevent the next liberal "rule by fiat" President from simply reinstating the same rules by fiat. If the FCC can point to a SCOTUS decision that said they shouldn't have created rules outside their scope of authority when President Next issues his Executive Order putting them back, then we can avoid the executive branch politicization of this legislative branch football.
It's BeauHD, certified piece of shit.
Say, did you know that Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in the first 20 months of his presidency that Barack Obama did in his first two years?
If you don't like "rule by fiat", then you should really be uncomfortable with the degenerate Trump regime.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Many of the same people continue to be upset by it, even if we enjoy the laments by some who liked it under Obama in the shoe is on the other foot aspect of it.
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Hence why a exceptionally good education system is necessary for a democracy to endure.
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I know that. You know that. We all know that it was all about skin color.
Oh, and by the way, DACA is back in business.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Three retiring senators that are hated by their own party and a pair of oligarchs.
It's not a very robust group of resisters to the Trump regime from the conservative sphere, now is it? I'd be more impressed if you could name someone who was actually running for re-election.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Say, did you know that Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in the first 20 months of his presidency that Barack Obama did in his first two years?
If you don't like "rule by fiat", then you should really be uncomfortable with the degenerate Trump regime.
Wow
20 months vs 2 years ? Any reason you felt the need to change units there ? 20 months vs 24 makes it much easier to see the difference. Though it doesn't sound nearly as impressive.
Gotta ask before you posted that did you do any checking about the nature of the EOs ? I mean just how many were undoing previous EOs ?
Seems this would important to make the point you are trying to unless you are just looking to troll.
Hence why a exceptionally good education system is necessary for a democracy to endure.
Educational levels are irrelevant when discussing the fact that pure democracies are a tyranny of the 51% over the 49%.
It's not any lack of education, it's base human nature that is the fly in the ointment of a direct democracy.
Those who seriously promote/push the idea of a direct democracy are either woefully under-educated themselves, or they have an ulterior political/ideological motive like social/political disruption of the sort the Russians have been in the news for recently.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.