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by impalallama 701 days ago
It’s been explicit goal of Conservatives for decades to remove “over regulation” and now thanks to this precedent newly instantiated corporations in the Texas 5th district can shop around to whatever judge they want and effectively strip any regulation now and forever; which has in fact already happened with a Texas judge ruling the FTC can’t ban non compete clauses

(https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/10/preliminary-injunction-ftc...)

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That works right up until the moment the other side gets enough power to write some very specific regulations that are not open to interpretation. I am not convinced that the Conservatives will like the long term result of this decision; unintended consequences, etc. As usual, partisans have blinders on and consistently assume that this time they will permanently gain power and these choices can never be used by their opponents.
> That works right up until the moment the other side gets enough power to write some very specific regulations that are not open to interpretation.

You assume the Democrats want to govern instead of capitulate to the Republicans after enough delay.