Time to Throw Chevron Overboard: Loper
Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Posted By: DVC, 12/21/2023 2:13:42 PM
uppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now claimed you had to pay that observer’s salary. This is essentially what a group of commercial Atlantic herring fisheries are now facing and what led them to bring legal action asking the courts to rein in this regulatory overreach. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear their case and others that are related. Here are the facts: In 1976, Congress passed, and President Gerald Ford signed, the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA)
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But there have always been times in the past when the entire chamber applauds, sometimes members of the opposing party even stand. That’s because the person addressing them is president of the United States, not leader of a faction.
Until now.
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Watch: MSNBC’s Wallace Concerned Young
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Cancer Survivor Might Kill Himself over
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The Chevron case was a massive disaster, basically saying all future courts should defer to the bureaucrats. This terrible ruling was very wrong and must be jettisoned. As the authors say, the bureaucrats have been unleashed to run rampant over free enterprise, destroying everything.