Supreme Court Decision on Glyphosate Shoves More Humiliation Down RFK Jr. and MAHA Throats

The Trump administration’s frequent pantsing of the MAHA movement that voted Donald Trump into power is an embarrassing thing to witness, but we’ve been treated to a nonstop parade of lowlights for Make America Healthy Again proponents during the second Trump administration as the POTUS and his trained dogs at the U.S. Supreme Court find ways to make the spineless Robert F. Kennedy Jr. look like more and more of a fool/coward on a weekly basis. Today’s instance of Kennedy and MAHA humiliation: The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and Bayer, the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, in overturning a $1.25 million jury award given to a Missouri man who had claimed that prolonged exposure to the widely used herbicide caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In doing so, the Supreme Court instantly jeopardized thousands of other pending U.S. lawsuits from consumers against Bayer, which acquired Roundup’s original manufacturer Monsanto back in 2018. That’s after Donald Trump himself already mandated the boosted production of the herbicide’s active ingredient glyphosate in an executive order, despite the fact that MAHA and RFK Jr. have campaigned for years on glyphosate causing cancer.

The justices, led by Brett Kavanaugh, essentially wrote in their full decision that because the Environmental Protection Agency has to date failed to establish a defined link between glyphosate and cancer, federal law “expressly pre-empts” the attempts to take Bayer to state-level courts on claims that the company had failed to warn consumers of the danger represented by Roundup. This is ironically in stark contrast to the Biden administration, which had argued that the EPA had made “grave errors” in its first-Trump-era approval/defense of glyphosate, which caused the EPA to begin a new investigation into the link between glyphosate and cancer that is still technically ongoing. The Biden administration also argued that federal pesticide/herbicide laws do not pre-empt state-level health lawsuits, advising the Supreme Court not to dismiss failure-to-warn lawsuits brought by consumers. But hey, MAHA influencers and RFK Jr. decided that Trump was the horse to back, despite the fact that the EPA he presides over slashes regulations against the emissions of known carcinogens on a weekly basis, and based its glyphosate decision in part on research provided by Monsanto itself!

I don’t know how @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com could both write about today’s SCOTUS Monsanto decision and not ever mention that the company secretly ghostwrote key papers EPA relied upon to conclude that Roundup/glyphosate is safe. Kinda feels like journalistic malpractice.

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— Michael Mechanic (@michaelmechanic.bsky.social) 11:40 AM · Jun 25, 2026

With such a huge case for the MAHA movement on the SCOTUS docket, and a known decision coming, I’m sure RFK Jr. must have drafted quite a scathing reply to the fact that Trump and the Supreme Court succeeded in once more screwing over the Americans suing Bayer in response to developing cancer, right? After all, Kennedy, in his previous lifetime as a prominent environmental attorney, was one of the lawyers who first helped to win a major $289 million jury verdict for a client with cancer against Monsanto in 2018, and while running for President in 2024, he vowed that his FDA would ban the herbicide. Surely he was ready to respond, right? Well no, actually: He’s been completely silent, because responding would mean publicly disagreeing with Donald Trump about something, and RFK Jr. has demonstrated that he would rather die than be forced to do that. In fact, when Trump signed his executive order boosting glyphosate production, rather than siding with his own MAHA movement, RFK Jr. put out a statement on how great the thing is that he previously called poison, on the grounds of national defense. Or in Kennedy’s own words: “Donald Trump’s executive order puts America first where it matters most—our defense readiness and our food supply. We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it.”

What’s even more sad, looking at the broader national response of other MAHA figureheads to today’s Supreme Court ruling, is that none of them are even willing to throw RFK Jr. under the bus for totally and completely failing to represent them at the federal level, despite being the literal leader of their movement and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Instead, they merely blame the court itself, or “Republicans” in some vague sense. Happily, at least a few of them have gone directly after Donald Trump for his efforts to climb into bed with Big Poison. I wonder if any of them actually regret voting for the man, given that the Biden administration was literally on their side in this particular fight?

“President Trump campaigned on MAHA and then filed legal briefs protecting Bayer-Monsanto from farmers who got cancer because of their products. That’s a serious betrayal,” said former Congressman Tim Ryan, one of the few congressional Democrats who publicly identifies as part of the MAHA movement. “There’s a real awakening happening in this country around food safety and toxic chemicals, and this court ruling cannot stop that. We’re going to keep fighting to help farmers transition away from these pesticides, and to hold the corporations that profit from them accountable.”

David Murphy, the founder of advocacy group United We Eat and former finance director of RFK Jr.’s own presidential campaign, meanwhile, railed on empty words from so-called Republican allies: “For decades, Republicans have preached about the importance of states’ rights and ‘pro-life values,’ but today’s ruling in favor of Bayer-Monsanto’s right to shield themselves from cancer lawsuits is more proof that this is just empty rhetoric from a morally bankrupt party and a Supreme Court that continues to put corporate profits over the health of Americans.”

And yet, RFK Jr. himself is totally silent. I suppose when you’re as busy as he is, you only have time to post about a few things each day, and today’s bandwidth was already taken up by Kennedy posting on … his enjoyment of recreational sailing with his rich family. As for Americans with cancer, uh … maybe you could try turning to raw milk? I hear RFK Jr. swears by the stuff.