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Someday a bad Congress can make bad laws. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws (or not have a Congress). This argument against executive agencies is nonse
by vkou 3y ago
Someday a bad Congress can make bad laws.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws (or not have a Congress).
This argument against executive agencies is nonsense. Complete nonsense. The executive only has power delegated to it by legislature. If it's misusing that power the legislature can always pass a law that makes the agency do something else. If Congress isn't passing such laws, it's clearly happy with the current state of the agency.
If you don't like the NLRB, vote for a Congress that will dissolve it. I can't imagine that will be a popular campaign platform, but you never know...
(I know why this nonsense argument is so popular these days - the Republican plan for governance is having a Congress that won't do anything - so in order to implement their reactionism, they need to do it through unelected, appointed judges, who don't need consensus when imposing their agenda.)
- AlbertCory 3y agoad hominem arguments. "Those bad people are saying it, so it must be wrong." Read the Constitution and the Federalist papers someday. Also read about "Chevron deference" which is going away soon.
- peddling-brink 3y agoThe comment you responded to was nearly as far as you can get from ad hominem. Yes they mentioned the Republicans, but not as a reason for their arguments. They attacked the republican plans and strategies.
- philwelch 3y agoWe already have a set of laws—the Constitution—that governs which laws Congress is allowed to pass. What’s more, not only does the Constitution categorically blacklist certain laws (e.g. the Bill of Rights), it also specifically whitelists the limited set of purposes Congress can pass laws for (e.g. Article I, Section 8). And the Tenth Amendment makes clear that the federal government has no powers beyond the ones explicitly delegated to it by the Constitution.
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