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The US government has a lot of intentional friction built into the system and has had more added over time (e.g. the current iteration of the filibuster). Passi
by enragedcacti 2y ago
The US government has a lot of intentional friction built into the system and has had more added over time (e.g. the current iteration of the filibuster). Passing laws is harder and takes much longer than most democracies so applying existing laws to new or unexpected situations is a more important and more common issue.
Most of those structural hurdles won't change so the net effect is that instead of the elected administration doing minimal interpretation with judicial checks it will be the unelected and unaccountable judges doing it, usually with years of litigation and potentially years of delay added to any controversial regulation. All of that made worse by the ability to shop for friendly judges (see the absurd mifeprestone case).
We do have some broad limits to delegation and at least one member of the current court (Thomas) has expressed a desire to limit delegation further.