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> The executive branch's powers are being quickly eroded by SCOTUS. Funny, I'd say the executive branch has been gaining more and more power, and the Supreme C

• pfisch 2y ago
  Throwing out Chevron really significantly eroded the power of the executive branch.
  • wongarsu 2y ago
    That's recency bias though. When talking about the last 35 years (or even the last 25 years) the power of the executive has massively expanded. Even the Chevron defense doctrine itself was only 40 years old.
• vlovich123 2y ago
  In some ways the executive branch has gained power, in other ways SCOTUS has gutted it through the novel "major questions" doctrine to peel power away from the executive under the guise of handing it back to the gridlocked legislature. For example, see the recent overturning of Chevron in Loper. Sure, the executive has a lot of power to exercise military power without needing Congressional approval and minimal oversight. The courts have been happy to help expand and uphold that power. But power to regulate industry and other internal questions has generally been eroded since the 80s, and in accelerated fashion with Trump's further entrenchment of a more extreme right-wing ideology on the court.
• akira2501 2y ago
  The executive branch is there to execute laws. Outside of that specific task it should have no "power."