🚨This is IMPORTANT. The Farm Bill vote happening right now contains a provision that goes far beyond pesticide liability, and Dennis Kucinich came to the steps of the Supreme Court on Monday to make sure people understood what is actually at stake.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Bayer can be shielded from state-level failure-to-warn lawsuits. But as Kucinich explained, the justices are not being asked to decide whether glyphosate causes cancer. They are being asked to decide whether states retain their constitutional right to protect the health and safety of their own people.

The 10th Amendment reserved that power to the states when this country was founded. The Supremacy Clause preemption argument Bayer is making, backed by the Trump Justice Department, would strip it away.

The Farm Bill makes this worse. Removing the pesticide liability shield language, as some representatives fought to do, does not address the EATS Act provisions buried in the same bill, which would block states from setting agricultural standards stronger than the federal baseline, covering chemical use, animal welfare, and beyond.

The Rules Committee refused to allow a vote on removing those provisions. That leaves voting no on the entire Farm Bill as the only remaining path to protecting states' rights over their own land, their own farmers, and their own communities.

This is a constitutional moment.

@delbigtree