And yet....they do. Haven't you heard? Government regulations are now laws.
“Government regulations are now laws”
Administrative law has long outweighed Congressional and judicial law by tons, and I mean outweigh literally. Stacks and stacks of rules, codes, gentlemen’s agreements, winks and nods, and everything else the IRS, EPA, etc. feel like doing that day dwarf the output of whoever it is that write congressmen’s laws for them. As little as the voters have a say in what Congress gets up to, every election necessarily being about thousands of issues and two or at most three guys who’d do about the same in office, at least there’s some tiny way to say you don’t approve. There’s no way to touch the Permanent Government of the Administrative State.
They do whatever they want no matter who’s in office or on the bench. They are the real state. (Including the Fed and the “intelligence” agencies; they don’t write laws; they just do things, and those become precedents that are like laws.)