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OMNI UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANTHOLOGY #1 September 4, 2025

 

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UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANTHOLOGY #1

September 4, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology

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What’s at Stake:    “Since Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2009, the Court has been at war with any effort to limit the political influence of the rich." 

 

CONTENTS

“The Supreme Court's Key Role in Polarizing American Politics”  by Garrett Epps.
The SC Undermining the EPA’s Ability to Slow Climate Change by Jared Sexton.
The new Supreme Court ruling  devastating for the climate, wildlife and people by John Noel. 
Supreme Court Rulings Drastically Weaken the EPA and Strengthen State Control of Elections by Paul Waldman.
New Book:  THE NINE HAVE SPOKEN:  The Nation vs. The Supreme Court, 1870 to Today by Richard Kreitner.

 

TEXTS

Supreme Court, Citizens United Ruling (2009), Economic Inequality, Oligarchy

“The Supreme Court's Key Role in Polarizing American Politics”  by Garrett Epps, The Atlantic.   RSN 9-27-2013.
Epps writes: "As for the Court's role in dark money, I don't need to say much. Since Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2009, the Court has been at war with any effort to limit the political influence of the rich." 
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 PRO-CORPORATIONS SUPREME COURT v. CLIMATE

CONSTRAINING THE EPA
The heart of the matter” by Jared Sexton.
 

Editor.  Mronline.org (7-3-22). 

The Supreme Court's undermining of the EPA's ability to fight climate change brings the terms and stakes of the current crisis into blinding focus.

Originally published: Dispatches From A Collapsing State  on June 30, 2022 by Jared Yates Sexton (more by Dispatches From A Collapsing State) (Posted Jul 02, 2022)

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Before we dive into the Supreme Court’s disastrous 6-3 decision to eradicate the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to combat climate change, we must first turn to the past.

The founding of the United States of America is so wildly misunderstood that it’s become depressingly laughable. The revolt of 1776 and the penning of the Constitution were not divinely inspired, nor were they simply momentous events that sprung from some irrepressible desire for freedom. These stories we are told are fairytales designed to simplify and mystify the workings of our world.

America’s push for independence was largely predicated on a desire by wealthy individuals to escape the financial arrangement with England and the timing of that revolt, in line with the birth of the system of capitalism, with an emphasis on property, is not coincidental. When the Founders began arranging a system of government, they designed it with a total emphasis on protection of property and every system was created specifically to curb democratic impulses through checks and balances preferencing white, wealthy men.

Now, to the present. Climate change is an apocalyptic threat and the result of the industrialization that created our modern world. Our system of production and consumption have brought us now to the edge of oblivion and any actual solution to the problem lies not with you or I recycling but with states reckoning with the problem. The Supreme Court, founded as a backstop in that system I described, is doing its job as it was designed. It is protecting the right of property and the pursuit of profits from any and all interference. . . .

 

How is this justice for our climate?” by John Noel.  Greenpeace.  (Date not given, 2020?)                                          Fri, Jul 1, 5:35 PM (4 days ago)

In this stupid 6-3 ruling, the highest court in the land has handed down a dangerous and irresponsible decision that severely limited one of the most effective tools for addressing the climate crisis.

The Supreme Court has just limited the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from power plants — which are one of the biggest emitters of carbon-based pollution.

This ruling is going to hurt people. It’s going to hurt wildlife. It’s going to make it easier for business owners to challenge clean air regulations. If there was ever a doubt that this Supreme Court favors the powerful over the people, it’s gone!

But we’re not done. I promise you Greenpeace is going to keep on fighting. We’re not going to let radicals in robes put our future at risk. Please fight alongside us by making your emergency gift to Greenpeace Fund now!

This Supreme Court has shown a willingness to decimate women’s rights, voting rights, and union organizing. Now, they’re literally aligning with fossil fuel interests against the best interests of the American people.

In 2018, air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and gas was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. These justices have ruled in favor of sacrificing more lives to enrich millionaire coal and oil barons.

What they’ve done dramatically weakens the Clean Air Act — one of the most important environmental laws of the last 50 years. Presidents have, quite reasonably, used it to help regulate carbon-based emissions, which is critical to preventing the worst impacts of climate change.

But the big fossil fuel companies and the politicians in their pockets didn’t like that one bit. 19 attorneys general and two coal companies challenged the EPA’s authority.

We must call on governments and corporations to shift their mindsets from exploitation to protection, and build a truly sustainable future for all! Please raise your voice for the oceans and the planet by giving to Greenpeace Fund now. . . .

John Noel
Senior Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace

 

 

“EPA ruling tips court’s hand” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Jul 01, 2022.   The recent Supreme Court term fulfills longtime Republican dreams, including curtailing the EPA’s ability to control CO2 emissions, and it announced it would next increase state control over elections.
https://edition.arkansasonline.com/article/282381223241001

EPA ruling tips court’s hand” by PAUL WALD­MAN .   Arkansas Democrat-Gazette  (Jul 01, 2022).   Read more...

 

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THE NINE HAVE SPOKEN:  The Nation vs. The Supreme Court, 1870 to Today by Richard Kreitner.  OR Books, 2025.

 

 

Featuring contributions by Elie Mystal, I. F. Stone, Jamie Raskin, Katha Pollitt, Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Patricia J. Williams, and Charles Warren.

 

 

The first book in the Nation Books x OR Books co-publishing project argues our reactionary Supreme Court is no aberration, but the endpoint of a long history of demands for a democratic, accountable judiciary that have gone unheeded.

 

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