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🥥 🌴 Techie, lawyer, he/him Durham, NC, USA
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The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge.

Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests

The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration woul...

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touch grass

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It’s Madison Cawthorn’s district. Let’s not get carried away.

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"While states can remove a person’s name from their lists of registered voters if, for example, the person asks to be taken off, has died or, in many places, been convicted of certain crimes, the National Voter Registration Act sets what’s known as a 'quiet period' before federal elections..."

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This is actually pretty fucked

Michael Connett, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad and the lead attorney for the groups who brought the lawsuit, said the law now requires EPA to take action to remove the risk of fluoride.

"From our vantage point, the obvious way of eliminating the risk from adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water is to stop adding them," he told CBS News.

The judge's ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by the groups under a chemical safety law passed by Congress in 2016, which empowered them to challenge the EPA in court after the agency denied their petition.
Unlike the recent so-called "Chevron doctrine" that the Supreme Court overturned earlier this year, the 2016 law said judges did not need to defer to EPA's expertise when petitioners challenge the agency's rejection.

Instead, the law left it up to Chen to decide whether a preponderance of the evidence — if it was more likely than not — showed that fluoride could pose an "unreasonable risk."

Connett said the ruling marks the first time that a group has been able to use the law to take a citizen petition to trial.
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Biggest propaganda triumph of the last 20 years is that anyone—ANYONE—professes that the Biden years were worse that the Trump years. "Are you better off than you were four years ago??" Yeah, I HAVE TOILET PAPER, FOR INSTANCE.

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Le Maki
@lemaki.bsky.social
🥥 🌴 Techie, lawyer, he/him Durham, NC, USA
128 followers173 following2.4k posts