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Thanks for the mix. I smiled when reading about the Houthis who managed to create a ballistic missile they used against an Israeli ship. Good for them!

I continue to frown at the efforts of the West to poke the Russian bear - there are way too many bloodthirsty people in Western power.

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BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, JUN 28, 2024 - 10:40 AM

The Supreme Court has ruled to overturn the so-called 'Chevron Deference' dealing a huge blow to the so-called 'administrative state' that have enjoyed

In an 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended the 40-year administrative law precedent that gave agencies across the federal government leeway to interpret ambiguous laws through rulemaking.

Conservatives and Republican policymakers have long been critical of the doctrine, saying it has contributed to the dramatic growth of government and gives unelected regulators far too much power to make policy by going beyond what Congress intended when it approved various laws. The authority of regulatory agencies has been increasingly questioned by the Supreme Court in recent years.

Those on the other side say the Chevron doctrine empowers an activist federal government to serve the public interest in an increasingly complicated world without having to seek specific congressional authorization for everything that needs to be done.

As The Hill report, judges previously had to defer to agencies in cases where the law is ambiguous.

Now, judges will substitute their own best interpretation of the law, instead of deferring to the agencies - effectively making it easier to overturn regulations that govern wide-ranging aspects of American life.

This includes rules governing toxic chemicals, drugs and medicine, climate change, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and more.

The move hands a major victory to conservative and anti-regulatory interests that have looked to eliminate the precedent as part of a broader attack on the growing size of the “administrative state.”

The Biden administration defended the precedent before the high court.

As Mark Joseph Stern writes on X:

"Today's ruling is a massive blow to the 'administrative state', the collection of federal agencies that enforce laws involving the environment, food and drug safety, workers' rights, education, civil liberties, energy policy—the list is nearly endless."

"The Supreme Court's reversal of Chevron constitutes a major transfer of power from the executive branch to the judiciary, stripping federal agencies of significant discretion to interpret and enforce ambiguous regulations."

Chief Justice Roberts, writing the opinion of the court, argued Chevron "defies the command of" the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal administrative agencies.

He said it "requires a court to ignore, not follow, 'the reading the court would have reached had it exercised its independent judgment as required by the APA.'"

Further, he said it "is misguided" because "agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

The liberals on the court are not happy:

"In dissent, Justice Kagan says the conservative supermajority "disdains restraint, and grasps for power," making "a laughingstock" of stare decisis and producing "large-scale disruption" throughout the entire government. She is both furious and terrified."

As Stern concludes:

"Hard to overstate the impact of this seismic shift."

Simply put, a massive win for the constitution...

The decision comes one day after the Supreme Court curtailed federal agencies' use of administrative law judges in another blow to the administrative state.

Read the full decision below:

Hubbs response :

This is all theater until the last minute to keep us distracted until crunch time. Then something will happen to justify the installation of whatever puppet they have planned for us.

Foolish Americans, Trump will not save us either.

You can "vote," but you can not hide.

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bpj

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retired oracle?

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No. Driven into retirement by the KY Board of Medical Licensure case #467, 1994, where my license was suspended and the Board's decision was upheld by Chevron Deference (see todays ZH article about this being nullified by the SCOTUS) even though the statutes of KY Medical Practice Act required that I be held to the standards of my own specialty. The Board's own same specialty expert thoroughly exonerated me, thus the Board had no evidence. The Board suspended my license anyway. On Appeals the KY Appellate court wrote: "Great deference must be given to the Medical Board because they are the most knowledgeable about the practice of medicine."

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