Is there going to be another stimulus cheque?
On Friday, the Supreme Court pulled off a heist decades in the making. In TransUnion v. Ramirez, five conservative justices seized Congress power to create new individual rights and protect victims by authorizing lawsuits when those rights are violated. Instead, the court awarded itself the power to decide which rights may be vindicated in federal court, overturning Congress own decisions about which harms deserve redress. Justice Brett Kavanaughs opinion for the court was so extreme it prompted Justice Clarence Thomas to write a furious dissent, joined by the liberals, that accused the majority of infidelity to the Constitution. But because of the courts 63 conservative supermajority, Thomas defection from the conservative bloc did not change the outcome. And now, thanks to Fridays decision, a huge number of Americans harmed by a flagrant violation of the law will be locked out of the federal judiciary altogether.