Schumer Lashes Out at ‘Extremist MAGA’ SCOTUS After EPA Ruling: It ‘Will Cause More Needless Deaths’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is lashing out at what he calls an “extremist” Supreme Court.

“First on gun safety, then on abortion, and now on the environment – this MAGA, repressive, extremist Supreme Court is intent on setting America back decades, if not centuries,” Schumer said in a statement Thursday.

He continued, “The Republican-appointed majority of the MAGA Court is pushing back the country back to a time when robber barons and corporate elites have complete power and average citizens have no say.”

He went on:

“Just like last week’s dangerously misguided and abhorrent decisions on gun safety and abortion, the extremist MAGA Court’s ruling today in West Virginia v. EPA will cause more needless deaths – in this instance because of more pollution that will exacerbate the climate crisis and make our air and water less clean and safe. But make no mistake – the consequences of this decision will ripple across the entire federal government, from the regulation of food and drugs to our nation’s health care system, all of which will put American lives at risk, making it all the more imperative that Democrats soon pass meaningful legislation to address the climate crisis.”

Read the statement below:

Finally, Schumer claimed the “decades-long fight to protect citizens from corporate abuses is being wiped out in a single case by extremist MAGA judges.”

“Today’s decision adds to the number of dangerous decisions that have rightly tarnished the public’s confidence in the Court — every Republican who had a role in putting these six justices on the bench are complicit in the devastating impacts of its extremist decisions,” he added.

Schumer’s polemic against the court was set off by its decision in West Virginia v. EPA.

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