Chevron Deference
I recommend watching this video from the beginning (where British MP Andrew Brigden reminds us that the UK government is trying to turn Russia’s SMO into a global nuclear conflict.
Also please continue to watch when Greg Reese explains recent US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions. Note especially Greg’s noting that SCOTUS made a decision that effectively reverses the decision to incarcerate people who walked through the Capitol building on Janury 6 2020.
Greg also explains that SCOTUS reversed the decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837 (I984) which decided tht regulatory agencies were the experts in the field & the courts should just defer to their interpretation of the law. So for the past 40 years federal agencies have been able to interprete laws to mean whatever they want; and the courts had to just ‘go with it’. It was called Chevron Deference & it put bureaucrats in charge of the country.
It’s how OSHA (the Occupational Safety & Health Administration) was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab or be fired. No law gave them that authority, they just made it up.
It’s how the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, firearms & Explosives, was able to decide a piece of plastic was a machine gun.
It’s how the USDA‘s - U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the NRCS, is able to decide that small puddle is a protected wetland.
It’s how out of control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air, & force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them, because they were the experts.
Imagine if your local police could just arrest you for any reason & no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you’d actually committed a crime or not. Just off to jail you go. That’s what Chevron Deference was. It was not only blatantly unconstitutional, it accused immeasurable harm to everyone. Thankfully it’s now gone. We haven’t even begun to feel the effects of this decision in the courts. It will be used for years to come to roll back federal agencies and we’ll all be better off for it.
And that’s why politicians & corporate media are freaking out about it.
Spike Cohen: In an era of ad news the US Supreme Court has brought us some good tools that ‘We the People’ can wield to work on restoring America.
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