The overreach of the fed gov on this is completely obscene.
Because you see, being populated with eco-kooks, that's what the gov is really trying to use it's "interpretative deference" to do: stop all fishing.
So called "Chevron deference" just provides cover for government lawlessness.
Last time commercial fishermen took the US to court, we lost badly. So what looks like a slam dunk, may not be.
Bkmk
Elections have consequences.
Pray for these fishermen, and for their attorneys.
“You’ll have try to ignore the onvious bias in the story.
The overreach of the fed gov on this is completely obscene”
Not surprised, THIS is what really scares them.
WTAF? If a law isn't clear, it's the job of judges to clarify it, by hearing whatever facts and expert testimony they need to accomplish that. That's what they get paid for, and paid a lot.
If they can't or won't do this, the law in question should be eliminated, and the legislature can try again. But allowing federal agencies to essentially write the laws governing themselves is completely wrong.
It certainly does seem excessive.
The fish are going to get paid for. The buyers are going to make sure they get what they pay for. The IRS is going to check that Uncle Sam gets his cut.
It certainly does seem excessive.
The fish are going to get paid for. The buyers are going to make sure they get what they pay for. The IRS is going to check that Uncle Sam gets his cut.
I think states should require medical doctor observers to watch over every abortion.
These observers might get paid $700/day and their fees passed on.
It seems unlikely the court would have taken this case, only to reinforce what already exists.
You cannot have separation of powers when executive agencies can make up law as they wish, when they wish.
They are not the legislature,and they are not the judiciary.
Chevron gives them almost unlimited power.
It’s curious that this case comes up at the same time the Davos idiots are proclaiming that farming and fishing are “eco-crimes”.
A couple of decades ago a senator asked the DOJ for a list of regulations and rules at all levels that required a prison sentence. Not laws passed by a government. But rules or regulations that were put into place by agencies. The DOJ said that there were perhaps thousands of regulations at all levels of government that required a prison sentence and that listing them would be an impossible task. Catch too many of the wrong fish, or too small, or in the wrong season and you could be in for a prison sentence. I saw a tortoise laying eggs in my driveway. I contacted my workout buddy, a federal official with a license to handle various endangered species. He told me how to dig them up, how to mark them, and how to move them. I did as he instructed and called a nature museum and asked if they wanted the eggs. The director said, “I can tell you; you don’t have tortoise eggs. I know this, because if you did, I’d be required by law to report you and you’d face up to a year jail and a fifteen thousand dollar fine. It’s the same fine if you just pick one up and move it off the road, by-the-way.” When I asked him what I should do with the totally not tortoise eggs he said, “I’d make an omelet.”
After some conversation, he told me when exactly to bring them to the front desk, when it would be manned by someone who wouldn’t know an egg from a tennis ball, which I did.