Reply #6: strategy? It looks true on first glance to me [View All]

[Robert Oak]

This is what I wrote about in the DU activist letter writing campaign.

I don't have this guy's total background but it seems to me he'd assist
in ripping apart the government's ability to regulate business activity (corporations) as well as environmental law. I'm also concerned about
workers rights.

Now this is a biggie coming from a 1937 Supreme court ruling which upheld the minimum wage law. FDR was ruled against on his New Deal legislation by the Supreme court until 1937. They claimed it was UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
(this is one of the reasons why you cannot say for certain if FDR's policies would have worked, for the Supreme court constantly killed them).

It was so bad FDR was trying to change the constitution to pack the court with more justices but one justice suddenly switched to side with the liberals on the court and voted to uphold social security, minimum wage act and National Labor Relations Act.


I mentioned Roe V. Wade and certainly it's "up there" but the thing I think to bring to light is Roberts as a corporate representative.

So, (I am not a lawyer or anything so someone correct me if this is wrong), it seems to me there is a lot of precedent to unravel workers rights, social security, environmental rights from Supreme court rulings and interpretations from 1936 backwards.