Yes, the same Bloomberg wrapping himself in a Democratic Party flag, and not being chastised enough except by Elizabeth Warren, who has courage.
That item - and why I have no love for the Chamber of Commerce - or as much love for it as the NRA, both Republican infested things - per this excerpt:
High Court Poised to Aim at Regulatory Power With New Trump Pick
Sept. 22, 2020, 1:51 AMThe Roberts Court has been good for business. With a third Trump appointee, it could be even better.
The prospect of Republicans increasing their majority to 6-3, after the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could make the court more favorable for business on issues including arbitration and employment.
It also boosts conservatives’ quest against the so-called administrative state, shorthand for the tangle of New Deal-era regulations and ones that followed that Democrats see as protecting workers, the environment, and more while Republicans see it as unduly burdening free enterprise. Oil and gas drillers, utilities, management interests, and small businesses are among those who stand to benefit as the justices could end up reviewing disputes over federal environmental regulations, employment, and other protections.
Business interests have had an ear on the high court long before Trump was elected. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has won 70% of the cases in which it filed briefs at the high court since 2006—a win rate much higher than during comparable periods in previous decades, according to analysis by the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center after the just-completed term.
“Significantly, in recent years, Justice Ginsburg was the justice most likely to reject corporate-backed positions in business cases and to vote instead in favor of workers, consumers, or the government,” said Brian Frazelle, the center’s appellate counsel.
The court’s record in business cases, with Ginsburg on the bench, means her replacement “is unlikely to change the outcome in many of these cases in the near future,” but that “doesn’t mean her absence won’t be deeply felt,” he said.
The chamber didn’t return a request for comment on the newly constituted court’s impact on business cases.
You can read the whole thing to see where it goes from that beginning. The point here is that a Repubican-leaning outlet sees the Chamber for what it is. A political force, whatever its taxed or tax exempt status is - it is political and adversarial to progressive ideas and aims. In that sense - It sucks, but not as much as the NRA because it has better manners and is less uncouth.
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The post could be left there, but is not. The Bloomberg item presents the simple truth that a single sentence spans: A corporatist will be selected.
That and there will be Dem rhetoric about inconsistent rhetoric of the Republicans.
There are but two simple truths:
First, McConnell had the votes at the end of Obama's term to stymie the Obama choice and now still has the votes, this time to pass Trump's late-in-the-term choice; and being who he is he will do so.
Second, most Senate Dems are each a corporatist millionaire and will be happy with Trump's choice of one of their own, but will bleat loud and long over inconsistent Repubican rhetoric - Obama's choice vs Trump's. Nobody believed Mitch saying anything high sounding back then when the message was "Today I have the majority and there will be no floor show vote," and it is only to be expected that he now is saying, "Today it is a cramdown, I have the votes."
Paragraphs and paragraphs more can be written.
But truth often is much simpler than rhetoric. Rhetoric is shaped and aimed to distort and channel and most often to confuse. Truth is existential.(Too often the effort is to hide truth behind rhetoric; e.g., Schumer, Pelosi and "respect" for big donor will fobbed off as something else.)
Respect for "rule of law" has correctly been differentiated from pursuit of justice. Law can rule well or badly, from any individual's or bloc's perspective. Rule being the keyword, law the adjunct. "Rule of power" is the actual and entire story. Power makes the law; e.g., McConnell's power yields Kavanaugh's law. Ditto for the new clone to be replacing Ginsberg's studied holding actions.