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Posted on 08/18/2025 6:05:16 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Liberal judges on a federal appeals court just sided with unelected Washington bureaucrats and gutted one of Congress’s most powerful tools to rein in the runaway Administrative State, the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
The CRA is clear, when Congress repeals a regulation—and the President signs that repeal—federal agencies are barred from bringing back the same or “substantially similar” rules.
That safeguard is critical to protect American workers, families, and businesses from suffocating regulation. But according to Senator Eric Schmitt, that safeguard has now been shredded.
“Led by liberal judges, a federal court just undermined one of Congress’s most powerful tools to rein in the Administrative State. The court’s decision allows unelected bureaucrats in DC to impose rules that Congress and the President expressly rejected,” Schmitt wrote on X.
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Off to the Supreme Court!
Get it to the G’D supreme court then. Have I mentioned how much I loathe these bastards lately?
I thought the recent Chevron decision resolved this.
I thought the recent Chevron decision resolved this.
Wouldn’t even need a CRA if agencies would stay in their assigned lanes... but that’s why they were created: to control the sheeple in any manner they want.
All congress has to do is not fund the courts that disagree with them.
Democrat judges can rage all they want, but if nobody pays the cops who will do their bidding?
Outside of their constitutional authority.
The law really is too vague. What does “substantially similar” even mean?
So here’s an idea. A regulation is just a law under another name. And federal agencies have no right to make laws. So take that power away from them completely.
If a regulation is so important, have Congress pass a law enacting it.
Will that delay important regulations? Probably. But we live under way too many restrictions as it is.
That’s what I thought to. It was supposed to been a done deal and stop crap like this from happening. The Supreme Justices should be livid at these judges snubbing their ruling.
(But we live under way too many restrictions as it is.)
That much is true!
Yep....they don’t get the say, or, the authority to do this.
I think there ought to be a “three strikes” law on some of these high-ranking judges. Three overturns by SCOTUS and you’re out. Best you can do is to back to judging parking tickets.
That would be great. Good idea 💡
NOTHING is resolved with the democRATS and demoKKKrats, except their LUST for power.
Anyone, Judge, Mayor, dog catcher, that does not rule in favor of the Deep State, anyone can be ignored.
Without a conscience or a soul, anything is possible.
“All congress has to do is not fund the courts that disagree with them.”
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Actually, they could also cut the funding of the agencies that are defying Congress, by an amount that is several times what it costs to enforce the regulations in question. This was done to the BATF years ago, and they got right back into their lane. Money talks, BS walks.
Before: GRIFFIN, STRANCH, and MATHIS, Circuit Judges
Current composition of the court
As of July 17, 2025:
# Title Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by
Active Chief Senior
62 Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton Columbus, OH 1960 2003–present 2021–present G.W. Bush
56 Circuit Judge Karen Nelson Moore Cleveland, OH 1948 1995–present — — Clinton
58 Circuit Judge Eric L. Clay Detroit, MI 1948 1997–present — — Clinton
65 Circuit Judge Richard Allen Griffin Traverse Cty MI 1952 2005–present — — G.W. Bush
67 Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge Ann Arbor, MI 1966 2008–present — — G.W. Bush
71 Circuit Judge Amul Thapar Covington, KY 1969 2017–present — — Trump
72 Circuit Judge John K. Bush Louisville, KY 1964 2017–present — — Trump
73 Circuit Judge Joan Larsen Ann Arbor, MI 1968 2017–present — — Trump
74 Circuit Judge John Nalbandian Cincinnati, OH 1969 2018–present — — Trump
75 Circuit Judge Chad Readler Columbus, OH 1972 2019–present — — Trump
76 Circuit Judge Eric E. Murphy Columbus, OH 1979 2019–present — — Trump
77 Circuit Judge Stephanie D. Davis Detroit, MI 1967 2022–present — — Biden
78 Circuit Judge Andre Mathis Memphis, TN 1980 2022–present — — Biden
79 Circuit Judge Rachel Bloomekatz Columbus, OH 1982 2023–present — — Biden
80 Circuit Judge Kevin G. Ritz Memphis, TN 1974 2024–present — — Biden
81 Circuit Judge Whitney Hermandorfer Nashville, TN 1987 2025–present — — Trump
69 Senior Circuit Judge Jane Stranch Nashville, TN 1953 2010–2025 — 2025–present Obama
8 judges to 6 stooges en banc, looks like.
Andre Mathis [Biden stooge] and Jane Stranch [Obama stooge] versus Richard Allen Griffin [Dubya judge].
” A regulation is just a law under another name “
They wiggle out of that by saying that it isn’t a law since only civil penalties apply.
BUT if the regulation was WAS willfully violated, THAT IS a federal crime, and thus if you catenate the two together, voila! A regulation has the weight of law.
And dweebs with poli sci degrees from GWU end up making laws as they see fit, having never bothered to stand for election...anywhere
I’d like to see the legal rationale behind their decision. Probably nothing more than, we say so.
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