A 5-4 USSC decision came down that, surprisingly, favored prisoners who have been mistreated while in prison. The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires prisoners with complaints about prison conditions to exhaust available grievance procedures before filing suit in federal court. But “exhaustion is not required” when a prison administrator “threaten[s] individual inmates so as to prevent their use of otherwise proper procedures.” Ross v. Blake, 578 U. S. 632, 644.
The 5-4 decision included two MAGA judges who sided with the prisoners, Roberts and Gorsuch, and the three Dem judges. The four MAGA judges who dissented and would have put Richards' life in jeopardy after Perttu threatened to kill him were, Barrett, who was joined by Alito, Thomas and Kavanaugh. Given the cruelty inherent in MAGA politics, it is surprising that Roberts and Gorsuch decided to spare Richard's life. MAGA often works in deeply mysterious ways.
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Law & Crime reports that djt is ignoring FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) law information requests. This is another step toward djt eventually ignoring the courts and doing what he wants. A recently filed lawsuit alleges that djt's administration refuses to release documents about "politically motivated" immigration enforcement and mass deportations. Since there rarely any significant punishment for failure to provide information that the laws says has to be provided, djt risks nothing by forcing people to go to court to get the information the law says they are entitled to get.
The question is, when will djt take the final step and tell the courts they have no jurisdiction or power over him?
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pv magazine reports on the dismal state of the solar energy industry under MAGA's intense hostility to it:
U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse
In a shock for the industry, the latest draft of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” excludes residential solar lease providers from the Investment Tax CreditA teetering U.S. residential solar industry may now be on the brink of collapse. Faced by macroeconomic challenges and shifting sands of state and federal policies, an industry once defined by double-digit growth in installations is experiencing steep declines – and the latest draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes things far worse.
The latest draft of the bill is bad all-around for clean energy, but it is particularly damaging to residential solar, cutting federal tax credits far sooner than expected.
Residential solar installations declined 31% in 2024. Over the last year, industry titans like SunPower, Sunnova, and Mosaic Solar have filed for bankruptcy.
The industry historically has leaned on the value proposition of lowering customer electricity bills and providing predictable costs for the long-term. However, that value has been increasingly difficult to provide.
Tariffs have posed challenges to the industry as well. Aluminum, used in both solar panel frames and racking systems, are hit with 25% tariffs. Solar cell and module import tariffs from major global suppliers have come in higher-than-expected this year, too.In 2022, the Biden Administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act, extending a tax credit that covers 30% of installed system costs through the mid-2030s. The latest One Big Beautiful Bill Act draft forwarded by the Senate Finance Committee ends this tax credit far ahead of schedule.
This posed a shock to the investment community. Share prices of the largest residential solar provider Sunrun are down over 40% in the trading day following the latest draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Trump publicly requested that Big Oil spend $1 billion to help him win the 2024 election. In a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in April, Trump promised oil company CEOs that he would reverse environmental rules and policies in exchange for their financial support. One analysis indicates that the oil and gas industry spent about $450 million to support and influence Donald Trump and Republicans throughout the 2024 election cycle and 118th Congress.
Killing solar energy in the US can thus reasonably be seen as djt's payback to the coal, oil and gas industry for their campaign contributions, also know as free speech. Pay-to-play politics does not care about collateral damage such as global warming, sky high consumer electricity bills or extinct species.