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It's fascinating that just last year, SCOTUS has determined that Congress couldn't delegate its powers to rulemaking agencies that Congress explicitly creates,
by vkou 1y ago
It's fascinating that just last year, SCOTUS has determined that Congress couldn't delegate its powers to rulemaking agencies that Congress explicitly creates, charters, and funds.
Yet, somehow, this implicit 'delegation' (where Congress is very actively doing nothing) is somehow kosher. As long as they won't impeach the leader of their party, anything goes! The man could drop a nuclear bomb on Ohio, and as long as he had 34 surviving votes in the Senate, he'd be fine.
If this kind of congressional silence is endorsement, why the hell did SCOTUS get involved to start legislating regulations from the bench in the first place?
- vel0city 1y agoIt's not implicit, they're directly doing it. They made a law giving the executive this exact power. They then passed a law redefining the length of a day so they would prevent the countdown in that law from them actually reviewing these. That's right, the Republicans decided the rest of 2025 is just one long legal day.
- vkou 1y agoA day is a year, and we're now in a permanent state of emergency, yet, apparently, Congress isn't allowed to delegate the job of policing pollutants to the EPA, and the judiciary must come in and save us from it.