The Laboratories of Democracy
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where we're glad to be alive, underneath the sky of blue.
We begin in California, where ExxonMobil, the company that knew it all along, plans on using the current upside-downism in constitutional law whereby a) corporations are people, too, my friends, and b) the only real discrimination needing judicial correction is that aimed at wealthy white people and their businesses. From The Guardian:
Exxon, an oil firm consistently ranked among the world’s top contributors to global carbon emissions, is suing the state of California over two climate-focused state laws,

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