Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB and FTC—are “unconstitutional.”
Trader Joe’s has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being “unconstitutional,” following the lead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations aren’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 Court—judges currently lean right by a six-to-three margin—while they can.
The documentary “the corporation” explains this stuff in great detail. Our founders fully understood the dangers corporations posed. Corporations could only exist under a temporary charter. Corporations were given extraordinary legal exemptions. Corporations could only exist to serve the public good (building the hoover dam) Corporations could only exist for a limited time (til the project was completed). The corporation and charter automatically expired on a set date. Of course at some point the wealthy passed a law to change all this. This permanent corporatocracy we live under is new and was strictly warned against and expressly illegal. The fact that we think of corporations as permanent entities is just evidence of massive corruption.
This explains it pretty well too, for people who would rather read a webpage than watch a documentary: https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/