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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mike Lee Swats Down Salt Lake Tribune for Whining Over Chevron Ruling
NewsBusters ^ | 7/11/2024 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 07/11/2024 9:35:23 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The Salt Lake Tribune is throwing a fit over the U.S. Supreme Court stripping the ungodly regulatory power of unelected bureaucrats while picking a fight with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for daring to support the move.

“Utah politicians are wrong to say the end of Chevron is a boost for liberty,” The Tribune editorial board complained in a whiny July 7 screed targeting Lee and other Utah Republicans who celebrated the Court’s ruling. Under the so-called “Chevron Doctrine,” deference was given to federal agencies' subjective interpretations of ambiguous laws to enforce burdensome regulations on American businesses, which was upended by the Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2023).

The Tribune was livid and took a swipe at Lee by likening him to a notorious Star Wars villain: “Sen. Mike Lee chortled that, without Chevron allowing regulators to make decisions, ‘It’s time for Congress to re-learn how to make real laws.’ That is, to make laws that say what the rules are and aren’t left open to bureaucratic interpretation. That’s rich coming from a guy whose entire obstructive legislative career was so well summed up by Star Wars villain Darth Sidious: ‘I have the Senate bogged down in procedure.’”

Has anyone ever thought of Sidious as being gung-ho about stripping power away from dictatorial-like federal agencies? Perhaps The Tribune forgot to watch The Empire Strikes Back. Lee clapped back at The Tribune for mixing up its Star Wars metaphors in an exclusive interview with MRC Business.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: chevron; mikelee; saltlaketribune; scotus

1 posted on 07/11/2024 9:35:23 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

We should be stripping government regulations by the boatload, why isn’t it happening yet?


2 posted on 07/11/2024 9:38:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: JV3MRC

Try reasoning with a liberal on the reversal of Chevron.

They will talk about “democracy” endlessly, then when you bring up the Chevron decision they will tell you that regulators are “experts” and Congress can’t understand enough to pass laws regulating various aspects of our lives and economy.

When you point out that their views are contradictory they simply refuse to acknowledge it.


3 posted on 07/11/2024 9:40:40 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Mr. K

It should work like that but we know it doesn’t. Sadly. Every whimsical rule and reg should have been suspended at the very least, immediately.


4 posted on 07/11/2024 9:42:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: packagingguy

The domination of deluded leftists in all media seems unbreakable.


5 posted on 07/11/2024 9:42:54 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: JV3MRC

The Chevron ruling slipped out underneath the noise of the Trump immunity ruling, but it may well be one of the most impactful decisions in US history.

Basically any regulation not created through Congress is exposed to challenge.


6 posted on 07/11/2024 9:44:13 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: JV3MRC

That is the ruling that is the big story. The media is too stupid and shortsighted to see it.


7 posted on 07/11/2024 9:45:27 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Pointing out hypocrisy is meaningless to the Left; they don't have principles, they have goals. )
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To: JV3MRC

The SL Tribune is the leftist (originally anti-LDS) paper in Utah, compared to the LDS owned Deseret News.


8 posted on 07/11/2024 9:46:19 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: kaktuskid

You get more diversity of opinion in the Desert News than you will ever get from the lunatic TDS dominated SL Trib.


9 posted on 07/11/2024 9:51:53 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: JV3MRC

Salt Lake Tribune = bird cage lining


10 posted on 07/11/2024 10:09:33 AM PDT by utax
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To: Mr. K

It’s all because of guys like Klaus Schwab and Schwartz Gyorgy.


11 posted on 07/11/2024 10:26:18 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: JV3MRC

How can ending the regulatory power of sever unelected bureaus or agencies not be wonderful for liberty? With an unelected bureau in charge of the media, how can they not be excited with its inability to regulate them?


12 posted on 07/11/2024 10:32:59 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: rktman

They could start with LOW FLOW TOILETS

Then fuel economy standards

what next?

Gay marriage was also a ‘law’ not enacted by congress, but by judicial fiat- a regulation outlawing gay marriage in Texas was ruled ‘unconstitutional’ so the opposite must be true. (a tactic I call ‘repeal to a third position’)


13 posted on 07/11/2024 10:41:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: JV3MRC; All
Thank you for referencing that article JV3MRC. Please note that the following critique is direct at the misguided (imo) Salt Lake Tribune.

"EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mike Lee Swats Down Salt Lake Tribune for Whining Over Chevron Ruling"


If I understand this Salt Lake Tribune issue correctly, the institutionally indoctrinated (imo) Supreme Court actually didn't go far enough with reversing Chevron Doctrine imo.

“Never confuse Motion with Action [especially in an election year].” ―Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Respectfully to Utah FReepers, do Utah citizen voters not understand the following? Probably most federal social spending these days is based on state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues (citizens' wallets), that the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress now regularly steals from the states by means of unconstitutional, unaccountable taxing and spending facilitated by Congress's abuse of its repealable 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) imo?

Corrupt Congress and likewise renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are an enemy of the people. This is why Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to support hopeful Trump 47 with new, Constitution-respecting state and federal lawmakers and executives in November, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, the new Congress also supporting him to quickly finish draining the swamp, including surrendering state powers that feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.

14 posted on 07/11/2024 12:56:08 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

SLC unfortunately is filled with the typical corrosive lib BS.


15 posted on 07/11/2024 6:56:34 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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