Here comes another one for SCOTUS

 

And, speaking of SCOTUS...

In an extraordinary and unusual dissent on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a stark warning to the nation: The Supreme Court is favoring “moneyed interests” over all other parties, contorting the law to favor big business while locking the most vulnerable out of court.

Jackson’s remarkable opinion was a protest against the court’s decision in Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, a case brought by the fossil fuel industry to weaken environmental protections. [...] [G]asoline companies [argued] that they had constitutional standing to sue because they suffer economic harm when people buy less gas.

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The court’s newest justice assailed the majority’s reliance on “commonsense intuitions” to establish standing, arguing that the court’s musings about the economics of the auto market are not borne out by facts in the record.

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But Jackson went much further, castigating her colleagues for twisting the usual rules of standing to benefit fossil fuel companies and corporate interests more broadly. “Our ruling will no doubt aid future attempts by the fuel industry to attack the Clean Air Act,” the justice wrote. “I worry that the fuel industry’s gain comes at a reputational cost for this court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests.”

  Slate

Because it is.