Not the first time we have had a bad SCOTUS. But we usually hurt for DECADES or longer afterward.

In the Sugar Trust Case SCOTUS wouldn't let the Sherman Antitrust Act affect E.C. Knight's control of 98% of sugar refining.

United States v. E. C. Knight Co (1895):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Hours later, I see that I could have noted that the Mendenhall Order was 1893, and macOS at the beginning of THIS century. ;)

The 1890s were screwy here.

SCOTUS helped show that. It took until 1954's Brown v. Board of Ed of Topeka to overturn SCOTUS' Plessy v. Ferguson bigotry. And the sugar case?

Argh.
Bulletin #26.
No idea why autocorrect decided it was #2.

And it's not new:
This has been the case since 1893's Mendenhall Order, published in Bulletin #2, "Fundamental Standards of Length and Mass," of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, established in 1807 (and which became one of NOAA's parts in 1970).

Aside:
Some people say that we use "the Imperial system," which the UK established a half-century after the American Revolution. We don't; if we did, a gallon of water would weigh 10 lbs instead of 8.6 lbs. Instead, we base most of our units on SI.

When I describe how U.S. Customary Units of Measure (feet, pounds, and U.S. gallons) are a "custom UI floating on top of SI" ("metric"), I often use the example of OSX / macOS using the Apple Macintosh UI on a Unix architecture ever since the 1893 Mendenhall Hall.

Outright assault, and not because the federal employee feared anything. 😞

Agreed --
And sue the pants off any federal employee who committed unprovoked assault and failed to follow the law.

(If you think these billionaires were wise to oppose VP Harris, I suggest that you consider the loss of control of corporations that investors saw in 1930s and 1940s Germany. Not a few people lost everything anyway after collaborating with that regime. And look at the fate of lapdog Ernst Röhm.)

May I reblog this, because you are unfortunately so damn correct? 😞

So. Bad.

Why? (2/2)
I am a U.S. Army veteran and former officer. I know that the same International Humanitarian Law (IHL) that protects civilians from being targeted in war also protects soldiers, sailors, and other personnel who become Prisoners of War; DO NOT harm civilians. Help people; do not hurt them.