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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 appointment process has corrupted the supposedly impartial nature of the judiciary there

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It would be better if they put pressure on the Senate to act.

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

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.

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

Pretty sure that judge's party already is trying to turn the country into Putin's Russia.

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