They fucking did it. These goddamned traitors. Assassination is too good for them.
Reposted from Raw Story:
In a landmark case, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the so-called Chevron doctrine would be overturned.
It is a 40-year standard that the conservative court eliminated with a 6-2 decision, in which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself.
Lower courts have relied on this doctrine over 18,000 times to determine environmental regulations that stopped multinational corporations from polluting. The High Court has deferred to the doctrine 70 times, agreeing that they should defer to a government agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
The decision seriously limits the power of the executive branch and gives it to the courts.
In her sharply worded dissent on the case, Justice Elena Kagan contends that "given Chevron's persuasiveness, the decision" to overrule the doctrine "is likely to produce large-scale disruption. All that backs today's decision is the majority's belief that Chevron was wrong--that it gave agencies too much power and courts not enough. But shifting views about the worth of regulatory actors and their work do not justify overhauling a cornerstone of administrative law. In that sense, too, today's majority has lost sight of its proper role."
Many legal experts and assorted observers were similarly aghast by the ruling.
Speaking to MSNBC after the ruling, former solicitor general Neal Katyal noted that it's a little-known case to everyday Americans, but “this is going to change government as we know it."
"It is impossible to overstate how damaging to governance--and to protections for air, water, food and drug safety, worker rights & so much more--the SCOTUS' overturning of (Justice Antonin Scalia's) Chevron Doctrine is. This is a landmark decision if only Americans understood how bad it is," wrote a national columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Jackie Calmes.
Policy analyst Ashley Tjhung said that the move was "just like the Koch brothers asked." It refers to the large company, Koch Industries, run by a right-wing family that fights to eliminate regulations.
"This is a key plank of the MAGA attack on the 'administrative state' and will reverberate through the entire federal government," explained democracy lawyer Marc Elias.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said, "Supreme Court wipes out another 40 years of precedent — this time, overruling the Chevron Doctrine that tells courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of statutes they administer. Radical judicial activists strike again!
There’s an old “Texanism” that applies to these traitors: “He needed killin’!”
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Difficult to hit the ❤️ button, however it does hopefully note that I agree with all you wrote and from whom you quoted, and that I absolutely loathe, with every fiber of my being, that everything I knew in my 6 decades of life is being ripped to shreds.
The real tragedy is yet to come - in another case of "dog catching the car", this decision will upend potentially thousands of regulations. Guess who is most likely to be affected - the poorer and less-well governed parts of the country. We'll all get it, but they will get it first and hardest, as they have fewer resources to cope with whatever fresh hell waits down the line. For what it is worth, the NY Times article on this decision did say that many recent regulations have been written without depending on Chevron; they may survive as they exist now. Rest assured the MAGA crowd have already prepared their "test cases" to send to the courts to break as many regulations as they can as soon as they can. I can only hope (?) that the Dems run on all these campaigns and call out what is going to happen to peoples' lives in the future as the regulations are set aside.....