"Power Grab": Supreme Court Overturns 4 Decades of Federal Regulatory Control, Hands Power to Courts
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Published 2024-07-01
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday approved a power grab by corporate interests who want to strip federal agencies of their power to regulate public health, the climate and environment, worker protection and more. In the 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority overturned a precedent known as the Chevron doctrine, which established that judges should defer to federal agencies on interpreting a law if Congress did not specifically address the issue. We speak with Mustafa Ali, former head of the environmental justice program at the Environmental Protection Agency, who describes it as “a very devastating decision,” and to The Nation's justice correspondent, Elie Mystal. “It's taking power out of our hands, out of the democracy’s hands, and putting it in the hands of the court,” says Mystal, who also addresses other recent rulings from the court at the end of its term, including the highly anticipated ruling on presidential immunity.
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All Comments (21)
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As a citizen, i dont feel represented by any of these stupid politicians
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As stated, Congress needs to get off their arses and do their jobs as intended by the framers.
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Our economy is afflicted by uncertainty, housing troubles, foreclosures, global shifts, and the aftermath of the epidemic, all of which contribute to instability. To restore stability and drive growth, all sectors must urgently address rising inflation, slowing GDP, and trade disruptions.
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There's nothing democratic about unelected agencies regulating our lives. You're defending the oligarchy not the people.
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Congress will now need to do their jobs, instead of this disgusting blue/red fight that gets us nowhere.
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Removing federal overreach has always been the constitutional mandate of the Supreme Court. The executive branch has NEVER had constitutional authority to rule by fiat ("rules"), established law ever since "Marbury vs Madison".
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Oh yeah these people really care about us while they're cutting children apart
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"Federal Agencies" do not pass legislation. This type of activity is intended for the people to decide through our representatives in Congress. If our nation feels that an issue warrants federal regulation, the PEOPLE need to decide, not 'experts' at three letter agencies. Our government has become too large, with too much power, and we need to get back to limited government with accountability. This is not a partisan issue.
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WE are the PEOPLE WE are waiting for.
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Legislative branch creates law, judicial branch interprets law, executive branch enforces law. Corporations captured the regulatory agencies decades ago and use their corporate capture and chevron doctrine to create interpretations of law favorable to them. This HURTS corporations not helps them.
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What actually happened with the strike down of Chevron is that Congress makes law, not agencies. If they want a law they go to congress. Simple as that. Unelected employees of government agencies should not make laws (regulations).
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Explain to me how putting the regulations back into the hands of legislature is a power grab!
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Uh, the regulations of agencies shouldn’t be off limits to constitutional scrutiny. Congress would just write vague laws intentionally to prevent judicial review of federal agencies.
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The role of the courts is explicitly to interpret the law.
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😂😂😂 these people, "taking the power away from the people" by empowering the citizens to be part of the laws congress passes? Those "unelected judges" are millions of time better than "unelected bureaucrats in agencies without authority to legislate"
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Congress and congress only, makes law. The judicial branch is the body who tries the law. That's it! Democracy does not allow for agencies to run the country.
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Awesome news. Agencies have Not a Drop of Constitutionality to Create Law. Make our Congress drop campaigning to carry out their Constitutional Duties.
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Isn't it because when politicians decide matters involving money and cost, it is like an open path to corruption?
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Of course the supreme Court did the right thing. We do not need unelected bureaucrats making our rules
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No, this keeps unelected administrative people from setting law. Congress needs to pass laws that are more specific about the powers they are giving agencies.
