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I really think federal authorities should start ignoring rulings from Texan judges. The amount of corporate bankruptcy venue shopping alone should tell us the a

• ellisv 2y ago
  It would be better if they put pressure on the Senate to act.
  • advael 2y ago
    I agree, but the fact that a judge in Texas has the power to harm workers throughout the country while we wait for the government to act is a problem, and there's an asymmetry in how quickly a single judge can make a decision versus the entire apparatus of the federal government
• kjksf 2y ago
  Dear god. Do you understand what you're advocating for? You're advocating for literal lawlessness. For anarchy. For giving the government absolute power. Given that government abuses non-absolute power you can bet that when they get absolute power it'll take about a second to turn any country into Putin's Russia.
  • advael 2y ago
    And you're saying that other states affected by these decisions should have no recourse for judicial activism that happens in some gerrymandered area that happened to get a judge appointed. The alternative to that isn't lawlessness, it's mitigating a vulnerability in the separation of powers, and I think our eye should be toward patching that vulnerability. We live in a very different world than the one in which this system was designed
  • ohashi 2y ago
    Pretty sure that judge's party already is trying to turn the country into Putin's Russia.