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Alito fails to mention, however, that Plessy did precisely what he insists be done with abortion: grant authority “to the people and their elected representatives” to regulate politically divisive issues.

The document sought to grant authority to three companies—including two which were also involved in auditing the election results—to send armed workers to seize all voting machines and election data at will.

But a military grant authority meant to help private housing landlords buy and install protective devices has gone unused.

“Using the grant authority has not been necessary,” the Pentagon told Reuters, because “privatized housing partners are proactively installing the devices.”

The court’s job was not to discern whether the commission’s actions were “desirable,” Breyer said, but to “answer a more purely legal question”: Did Congress, in granting the commission the ability ask courts to stop a dishonest practice, also grant authority to obtain “monetary relief directly from courts?”