the supreme court recently ruled that government agencies can't protect consumers unless the protection involved is explicitly spelled out in a law. if not, the agency's expertise in a given subject - whether a particular pesticide is lethal to humans, for example - is no longer enough to decide a court case.
this means that tens of thousands of rulings that were made decades ago are about to be challenged and potentially overturned - especially if the cherry-picked judges are conservatives.
robert reich spells out in detail who paid to get this outcome and why.