The Turtle ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks on the Senate floor, February 28, 2024, 

and announces that he will step down as Senate Republican leader in November

The competent and wily bastard who inflicted more harm to this country in ways boggling the mind is finally retiring. From packing the courts with far right jurists hell bent on turning back history including the elimination of a women's right to choose to limiting how governmental agencies should interpret and implement federal laws, the end result of McConnell's successful effort to deconstruct the very foundations of democracy for the sake of power and money will forever identify The Turtle as one of the most destructive pols ever to serve this once great nation known as America. 

To whit.

But the effect of this has been an imperialist judiciary steadily arrogating the powers of Congress to itself. Right now, there is a case that would overturn the Chevron doctrine, which holds that judges should defer to agencies in cases where statutory language is unclear. If the Supreme Court rules as expected, this will destroy the administrative state as we’ve known it for a century, and eviscerate the power of Congress in the process.

Instead of representatives and senators writing laws that instruct the executive branch about how and what kind of things to regulate (food, water, pollution, air travel, and so on) random judges will do it in concert with their oligarch pals. Right-wing billionaires will fund thousands of lawsuits against whatever regulations they don’t like, and—in between the same billionaires and members of the judiciary enjoying some ultra-luxurious vacations together—right-wing judges will rule in their favor. And thanks in part to how McConnell has gummed up the gears of Congress, it is all but helpless to respond to this assault on democracy.