While voting rights are a serious matter, there is
something that is even more immediately serious
and dangerous, and that is the matters of both
Humphreys Executor taking away the power of
independent agencies to regulate by themselves,
and the ruling allowing the President the power
to simply fire anyone, excepting only the Fed
officials.
The problem with these rulings is to effectively
deregulate many things that should be subject
to very stringent, scientific, and medically
guided regulations. For example food safety
should never be allowed to be in the hands
of untutored, politically driven people with
myriad ideas of what regulations should be,
as opposed to the hands of those who are
strict advocates of scientifically proven
facts. Here is one note I found quite disturbing
on the net that speaks to the problems we
may already be facing. 
Here, in NYS, some time ago, the dairy industry
convinced the Governor to extend the time that
milk could be sold, he did it. The result? Milk
was going bad so fast that supermarkets and
stores had so much trouble making refunds
etc., that they began only sourcing from
suppliers that stuck to the old rules, as a
result, many suppliers lost their contracts and
went out of business in a great example
of "be careful what you wish for."
Now, while all of that may be interesting,
think about the E. coli and other food
recalls, additive changes based on findings
that scientific research has shown to be more
harmful than good. Think about the harm
that could be done if politically motivated
people were to have the power to ignore
the science and allow bad issues to go
on unaddressed until significant harm
to the population could not be ignored.
Even if you were dense enough to want
to allow that, consider the public trust
that would be lost, and how disruptive
that would be to the very markets that
those "interested merchants" would
face in the end. Clearly something must
be done.
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