Project 2025 and the other SCOTUS decision.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa in 2016.
The Supreme Court just made Trump's wet dream the law of the land when they ruled 6-3 that a president has “absolute immunity” from prosecution.
Lost in the resulting outrage giving the executive branch absolute immunity was SCOTUS’ earlier decision this past week overturning the so-called Chevron deference.
In that case the Court took away the ability of federal regulatory agencies to interpret the laws that Congress passed since those laws by necessity can be non-specific.
The decision has broad implications, but nowhere has regulatory power been more necessary than in labor and in the workplace where federal authorities must routinely interpret two sparsely written laws from nearly a century ago: the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which protects workers’ right to organize; and the Federal Labor Standards Act of 1938, which created the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week and banned child labor.
Without the Chevron deference the power to fill in the blanks of a law will be handed over to judges who often have little expertise in the issues they are deciding.
And federal judges now seem to have little sympathy for labor.
The rightward shift of the federal courts over the past 40 years and the loss of federal regulatory power is not a good thing for workers or the labor movement.
Both the decision giving presidents absolute immunity and the decision tossing out the Chevron deference are both consistent with Project 2025.
Project 2025 is the 920-page document that outlines exactly what the next Trump presidency would look like.
It is the blueprint for how the Trump White House will forge ahead with their fascist coup following their first attempt on January 6th, 2020.
This time with the facade of “legality.”