PETER ST ONGE: Many more suits are coming, perhaps tens of thousands given there are roughly half a million federal regulations almost none of which were actually authorized by Congress.

The administrative state is unraveling as hundreds of unconstitutional rules are being challenged after the Loper Bright decision.

Rules range from SEC mandates and anti-farming rules to transgender mandates and citizenship for migrants.

The left, gloriously, is panicking. pic.twitter.com/4GFbFWyUTh

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 19, 2024

Some rare good news as left-wing mouthpiece, Politico, worries a recent Supreme Court decision will be "abused" to erase the "legacy of the Biden Harris nightmare."  The decision in question of course is June's Loper v. Bright case that gutted Chevron Deference, as it said that major regulations actually have to be passed by Congress, not by unelected Deep State bureaucrats.  This is because the Constitution very clearly states that Congress, who works for the people in theory, is supposed to make laws, not random bureaucrats who indisputably work for themselves.  

Source: Article I, Section I of the U.S. Constitution.

Loper Bright gutted a "cornerstone of progressive policymaking their ability to sneak laws in through the administrative state and running voters," which, fun fact, converts democracy into tyranny.  So what's upsetting Politico is that if Congress is supposed to make the rules, it turns out the vast majority of rules in existence at the moment were not made by Congress.  They just sort of spawned from the moist bowels of the deep state.  Politico is upset that "small government conservatives are suing to eliminate these apparently unconstitutional mandates." Worse for them, in a separate Supreme Court case Corner Post said that "there is no statute of limitations to challenging unconstitutional regulations," meaning they're all at risk even the old ones.  So which moist spawnings in particular are at risk?  Well, we're only two and a half months into Loper Bright and such things do move slowly, but we've already seen a Mississippi judge void transgender mandates; a Texas judge block an unconstitutional non-compete ban; and an Ohio appeals court block a rule regulating internet companies.  Another Texas judge struck down so-called "parole in place" that puts illegals on a path to citizenship.  They struck it down specifically because the rule "illegally bypassed Congress."  Others involve former mandates, small business mandates, manufacturing, abortion benefits, price controls, and, of course, the Biden-Harris student loan bailouts that would make blue collars pay for other people's gender degrees.  None of these were actually voted by Congress, meaning they are all gloriously unconstitutional.  In theory, Congress could turn around and actually pass the rules, replacing bureaucratic diktat with clean law.  In reality, almost no federal rules are actually popular; that's why Congress passes the buck in the first place.  So in all likelihood, the vast majority of mandates that are struck down will stay down.  Democrats know this and being the party of the administrative state they realize that even if cackles gets the White House they are losing the game.  The activist industrial complex is being dethroned. Some major suits have already been filed, one to dismantle a massive market surveillance system run by the SEC.  Other challenges a raft of "conservation measures on small farms that would drive them out of business."  Many more suits are coming, perhaps tens of thousands given there are roughly half a million federal regulations almost none of which were actually authorized by Congress.  As each mandate melts away, the economy gets stronger and the space for Liberty expands how you run your farm, how you run your business, earn a living, and how you educate your children.  It may not feel like it, but we are winning.  Thanks to the Constitution, things will get worse before they get better but we're turning the corner thanks to some very brave men 200 years ago and the greatest constitution in history that they left us.

UAW's fight isn't against the big 3 automakers; it's against China's bagman in the White House, Joe Biden

Joe Biden [pours] billions of tax payer money into subsidizing EVs, electric vehicles, that, in practice, can only be provided at scale by Chinese components or even just importing Chinese cars; meanwhile, comically strict emissions restrictions are essentially forcing the majors to swap to money-losing EVS that again only China has got the capacity to build at scale.  --Peter St. Onge

UAW launches surgical strikes against all 3 big automakers. Demanding wages and benefits totalling $136 per hour.

Strikes are soaring across America, already hitting 4.1 million lost days — the highest in a quarter century.

Between the worst inflation in 50 years and "Green"… pic.twitter.com/VkmC151sej

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 19, 2023

The 430,000-member United Auto Workers Union launched unprecedented surgical strikes against all three major automakers GM, Ford, and Chrysler.  In a first volley, 13,000 strikers walked off the job and blocked deliveries, idling lines on models including the popular Ford Bronco.  The strike is intended to put maximum pressure to force wage demands and benefits on Wall Street Journal estimates at $136 per hour.  For perspective at a 2,000-hour work year, that works out to $272,000 per year to assemble cars.  The Big Three had actually offered a 20% raise with the cost of living in pension boosts, but the union saw an opportunity so it went for the throat.  In theory, of course, that $136 will be paid by American car buyers because costs get passed on, but in reality, it will probably drive a lot of those princely jobs offshore instead where workers don't make $136 an hour; or, of course, it could drive the company's out of business or into the arms of foreign buyers leaving cars to the Chinese.  For the UAW, the background here is that after years of workers falling behind inflation in this Bidenomics miracle, workers are angry, and monopolistic unions, like the UAW, see their chance.  In the case of auto workers, they got an extra kick by Joe Biden pouring billions of taxpayer money into subsidizing EVs, electric vehicles, that, in practice, can only be provided at scale by Chinese components or even just importing Chinese cars; meanwhile, comically strict emissions restrictions are essentially forcing the majors to swap to money-losing EVS that again only China has got the capacity to build at scale.  The UAW rightly feels sold down the river by Biden on behalf of his Greens, or as Senator Josh Hawley put it, "Auto Workers deserve to have their jobs protected from Joe Biden's stupid climate mandates that are destroying the US Auto industry and making China rich."

So what's next?

The UAW strike could end fast, if the big three cave, or it could drag on for months.  But we can expect a lot more of this and what the media is already calling "a summer of strikes."  Last month saw 4.1 million lost days to strikes.  That is the worst in a quarter century and rising fast.  And keep in mind, there's still another 14 million union workers to go, not even including government unions which number another 7 million and growing like a cancer.  All of these renegotiations will fuel inflation that is already rising again before the UAW snags its $136 an hour.  As that inflation keeps grinding, we could even see a return to the nationwide strikes of the 1970s when entire swaths of American industry were driven offshore or out of business hollowing out entire cities and spawning the famous Rust Belt that 50 years later is only getting worse.  And here it comes again . . . .