alt Hacker News>As is so often the case for controversies before the Supreme Court, this case isn't so much about glyphosate as it is about the interface between federal and state law.
It was mentioned on a podcast recently that in many cases, the SC is not making a decision on what should/shouldn't happen/be the policy/is correct or whatever. They are deciding which layer of government gets to decide a given question. The Executive Branch? Legislation? Constitution? Who is the controlling entity?
Now, in a practical sense, by the time it gets to the SC, making a decision on who gets to decide, is, functionally, picking what the outcome is, since the various layers of government have already made their positions clear.
But the upshot is, if one is upset with what happens with a given policy after a SC decision, in many cases (although not all), the proper target of one's ire should not be the SC; since what they are usually saying is something like "this is something that is controlled by statute. If the statute is dumb/bad/poorly written, that is not our fault nor within our control, take it up with Congress to rewrite the statue", and instead one should be upset with whoever the controlling entity is for doing a bad job (in recent years: most commonly congress, not so much for doing a bad job so much as not doing any job)
3 equal branches is modern propaganda.
Congress has explicit authority to craft exceptions and regulations to SCOTUS appellate authority and what executive can do via power of the purse
Congress has explicit authority to reshape the court system
Legislative branches then have ultimate authority. The people in power are merely LARPing their hands are tied as they appeal to the propaganda we were all fed in public school (curriculum dictated by legislation)
It's all quid pro quo and intentional obfuscation by the people holding the scepter, gavel; whatever sigils and totem of power the elders worship blindly
SCOTUS authority should be whittled down the to explicitly defined powers with regard to ambassadors and treaties. The Judiciary as a whole should a part of these decisions not a cherry picked panel of obviously partisan hacks vetted by obviously partisan hacks
That we all sit around waiting on a bunch of incontinent elders glitching out live on TV is an massive indictment of the American public itself
My colleagues over seas are done with Americans as they feel they are not rising to meet the moment with the intensity required. They no longer see us as a reliable population interested in collaboration but as a bunch of low skilled, checked out, low effort analysts exploiting labor.
I don't blame them. You all keeping me off the hook for your healthcare with the lack of political action. So good luck but if you all end up homeless well by our cultural custom "not my problem thoughts and prayers"; guess you all should have planned better as a society