The Christian nationalist Supreme Court supports corporate emotional abuse

Activist Republican judges weigh in 

The Washington Post writes:

Supreme Court: No emotional harm awards in some discrimination suits

The Supreme Court split along ideological lines Thursday in dismissing a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf and legally blind woman who wanted to sue a physical therapy business for emotional distress.

The court ruled 6 to 3, with conservatives in the majority, saying facilities that receive federal funds under laws such as the Affordable Care Act cannot be held liable when the harm alleged is emotional rather than a financial loss.

A district judge dismissed the suit because it said Cummings could not pursue damages based on emotional harm, and a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit agreed.

So did Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority. He said the general rule is that damages for emotional distress are available only in “highly unusual” contracts, and there was no reason to believe it covered the kind of agreements such facilities enter into regarding federal funds.

It is not just the case that Republican federal judges are merely Christian nationalist theocrats. They are also laissez-faire capitalists and neo-fascist judicial activists. One can look forward to a continuing stream of decisions that take power from consumers, one after another after another, and gives that taken power to companies. The power flows to both for-profit and non-profit human beings called corporations. This is just one example of how the power shift from human people to corporate people is going to play out. 

If you want to give companies more power taken from real humans, vote neo-fascist, vote Republican! If not, go pound sand.