Nipping at the Heels of the Administrative State

American Thinker ^ | February 14, 2016 | Clarice Feldman

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Despite the fact that the Constitution sets forth three branches of government, each with discrete powers and limitations -- the executive, legislative, and judicial -- various agencies, boards, bureaus, departments that today make up the federal administrative state often render the roles and powers of those branches nugatory. The Constitution's checks and balances which provide limits on the three branches often are unavailing when it comes to the administrative operations. In effect, citizens' votes are worthless -- who voters elect or what policies they prefer, the head of agencies like the EPA call the shots...

The delegation of broad powers to the bureaucracy is now clearly out of hand.

In recent years, laws like ObamaCare, the Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Air Act seem little more than blank checks for unelected officials to expand their jurisdiction. In the process they also too often act as legislators, judges, enforcers, and prosecutors, and just as often, it seems that the slow-moving judiciary is by turns too deferential to the unelected bureaucrats or is unable to remedy administrative branch overreaching.

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[aquila48]

The administrative branch is part of the executive, who do you think runs the EPA - it’s the president’s appointee who does what the president wants.

The problem is that the stupid Congress in creating all those agencies has given away most of its legislative power.

[yoe]

Our tyrannical community organizer.....

[Obama] left Paris saying: It doesn’t matter that the Paris Agreement isn’t a treaty. It doesn’t matter that there are no enforcement mechanisms. I will instruct the EPA to essentially outlaw coal-fired power plants in the United States over the next decade. And because the EPA’s rule-making is almost never overturned -- by either a court or a subsequent administration -- this will be the “law of the land” in the United States due. So let it be written! So let it be done!

This is exactly why the United States needs a Cruz or a Trump as POTUS in 2016....actually we need both men......the in-fighting has to stop...America needs them and needs them to put their toys down and act like men. With both the Senator and the Businessman America will be Exceptionable again.

Could something like that work?

[indthkr]

Post-Constitutional America bump for later....

[newbie 10-21-00]

Quick, someone post a picture of Homer J. Simpson. Nugatory...mmmmmmm!

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Could something like that work?

I could live with Trump as pres and Cruz as vp.