Trader Joeā€™s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumersā€”the NLRB and FTCā€”are ā€œunconstitutional.ā€

Trader Joeā€™s has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being ā€œunconstitutional,ā€ following the lead of Elon Muskā€™s SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations arenā€™t alone in attempting to protect their interests by undermining public institutions; Meta is also arguing in an ongoing lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is unconstitutional.

A legal expert told Motherboard that these companies are attempting to take advantage of what they believe is a friendly Supreme Courtā€”judges currently lean right by a six-to-three marginā€”while they can.

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    10 months ago

    corporatism is indistiguishable from fascism. when corporations rule the state, the stateā€™s interests include the maintaining of the corporatocracy, and the corporations serve the state. every social institution becomes subsumed either by the state directly or by corporate interests directly, but regardless of which expression of power seizes the institution, they are serving the fascists state.

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