SCOTUS overturned a 40-year-old decision that had given federal agencies, and the presidents who led them, the power to exert oft-burdensome, costly controls on supposedly free American citizens, and that simultaneously tied the hands of courts to right these regulatory wrongs. Power back to the people.
With a 6-3 vote, U.S. Supreme Court justices overturned a 40-year-old decision that had given federal agencies, and the presidents who led them, the power to exert oft-burdensome, costly and unconstitutional controls on supposedly free American citizens, and that simultaneously tied the hands of courts to right these regulatory wrongs.
And interpret and implement, the experts certainly have done. Over they years, statute after statute has been implemented in ways that have reflected more the will of the political party in charge and less in line with a government of, by and for the people, i.e., a government guided by constitutional limits and a tone of deference to the people. Enough is enough, the people finally said.
“The plea to overturn the Chevron doctrine came to the court in two cases challenging a rule, issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, that requires the herring industry to bear the costs of observers on fishing boats,” the SCOTUS blog. “The fishing companies came to the Supreme Court asking the justices to weigh in on the rule itself but also to overrule Chevron.
“‘I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,’ said at his first Cabinet meeting of the year,” Politicoin 2014. “Outlining the strategy, Obama said he plans to use his pen to sign executive actions and his phone to convene outside groups in support of his agenda if Congress proves unable or unwilling to act on his priorities.”
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