Sotomayor, for the liberals, on the decision that the SEC (and presumably other agencies) can't levy civil penalties on lawbreakers without a jury trial: "Congress had no reason to anticipate the chaos today's majority would unleash after all these years." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
Great, so let's put corporate chiefs who break the law on trial in criminal courts instead, like they do in the EU, and jail them if found guilty. I imagine it will be more effective at curbing lawbreaking than fines, which are paid by shareholders and consumers anyway.
It's way too on the nose that, among all else, the Roberts Court's longest influence will likely in closing down vast area of the law from dealing with fraud and corruption.
It feels like a good day to start consistently referring to Alito et al as the court’s “radical far-right majority”, rather than continuing to pretend their decisions “conserve” anything.
