Posted on 06/30/2022 12:27:11 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Suck it Gaia.
This decision will have implications for countless other EPA regulations not specifically authorized by Congress.
Same goes for many more SCOTUS rulings related to Federalism in the same fashion as the Abortion ruling sending the matter to the states. Things like Education, land use, etc. Can’t wait to for many case involving public dollars going with students to non-public schools. It’s going to happen.
The Constitution gives Congress the sole legislative power to write laws. But that is not how things work now.
Congress finds it much easier (surprise, surprise) to create an umbrella agency for complicated issues — such as the environment, food and drugs, alcohol-tobacco-firearms — then letting the new alphabet agency (full of their buddies) to write regulations.
But if those regulations have the force of law, isn’t that the same as writing new laws? Except Congress isn’t writing these laws. Unaccountable bureaucrats who never have to face the voters write them. See the problem?
Thank goodness somebody is finally reading the Constitution again.
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