Here it is perhaps best — to lead with just the words Scott wrote to complain about Mr. Biden’s various initiatives:
…The student-debt forgiveness, which has no plausible basis in law….
Welp… that’s just… HILARIOUS.
There are other examples below, but the laughter here is… there is a specific federal statute, complete with Congressional appropriations, i.e., funding — that authorizes precisely this: student loan debt abatement.
It is literally part of the federal code. It is appropriately called “The HEROES Act.” Passed and signed under Tangerine, to boot. That’s a… federal law, son. [One you never challenged for three long years, even in theory.]
And Scott never complained about it, when the GOP / Tangerine used it in 2020 / early 2021 (and so, he applauded its actual use before). Cheeky.
Just… so precious, that.
The other examples? Here are a few of the gems, from which he quotes a frothy far right nut-job (along with my remarks in blue — chunk by chunk):
“…defiance of the Comstock Act prohibition on sending abortion-inducing substances through the mail (yet for over 50 years, not one GOP operative ever raised this issue — and now the GOP purports to use it to invalidate an FDA approved medicine on market for over 25 years?! Ever heard of the “major questions” doctrine, boys? Congress does not hide elephants in mouseholes!);
…the rewriting of Title IX on the fly to include gender identity and to impose new nationwide rules on schools regarding males in women’s sports (except that the very conservative Justice Gorsuch, a Supreme writing for the (6-3) majority in Bostock just three years ago — expressly held the word “sex” covers exactly that — all versions of what the word “gender” might mean in these contexts… again while Tangerine was in office, too!);
…and the distortion of the rules to make illegal immigrants covered under DACA — itself the product of an edict with no basis in the law about a decade ago (again, except that the Supremes have held that DACA was well within the power of the Executive and Mr. Biden has shored that up, post Tangerine, and that the Supremes held that immigration policy belongs in the Executive branch, absent new laws from Congress — of which there have been none — in about a decade)….”
So — all in all — pretty hilariously… cheeky, Scotty.
Cheers.
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