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Supreme Court poised to end ‘constitutional revolution’ that’s marred US governance for 40 years
NYPost ^ | 1/14/24 | Thomas M. Boyd

Posted on 01/14/2024 5:34:28 PM PST by CFW

When Justice John Paul Stephens issued his 1984 opinion in Chevron U.S.A. v. National Resources Defense Council, he started what legal scholar Gary Lawson later called “nothing less than a bloodless constitutional revolution.”

At long last, on Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases that may signal the beginning of the end to that revolution.

Article I of the Constitution explicitly directs that “All legislative Power herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,” not regulatory agencies.

Yet Justice Stephens’ opinion found that “agenc[ies] may . . . properly rely upon the incumbent administration’s views of wise policy” in “reasonably” defining statutory ambiguities.

The legal doctrine that Chevron spawned became known as Chevron deference and former President Ronald Reagan’s White House counsel, Peter Wallison, pointed to it as “the single most important reason the administrative state has continued to grow out of control.”

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Both are companies that fish for herring in New England and are family-owned and -operated, and both are subject to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which governs fishery management in federal waters.

The act allowed the National Marine Fisheries Service to require herring boats, relatively small vessels that normally carry only five to six people, to also carry federal monitors to enforce of its regulations.

As a next step, however, and without any express statutory authorization, the NMFS decided to require Loper Bright and Relentless to also pay the salaries of these monitors, estimated by the NMFS to be $710 per day, an amount that can exceed the profits from a day’s fishing.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: administrativestate; chevron; chevrondeference; chevrondoctrine; loper; nmf; progressivism; regulatoryagencies; relentless; scotus
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On Wednesday, SCOTUS will hear arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, from the District of Columbia Circuit, and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, from the First Circuit.

This is the case which so many of us hope will herald the end of the Chevron deference doctrine. Its end would do much to reign in the ruling cabal we now refer to as federal agencies.

1 posted on 01/14/2024 5:34:28 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

I can tell you that Roberts hates Chevron. As a young lawyer in the Reagan WH, he despised this ruling.


2 posted on 01/14/2024 5:40:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: CFW

Hopefully more MAGA by DISQUALIFYING AND TEARING DOWN the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government which has turned totalitarian and threatens our lives, our fortunes, and our beloved country.


3 posted on 01/14/2024 5:43:36 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: CFW

I doubt the deep state will easily yield the power they have through the myriad fed agencies.


4 posted on 01/14/2024 5:46:56 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: nwrep

Traitor Roberts has “grown” during his time at SCOTUS.


5 posted on 01/14/2024 5:48:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: nwrep

Justice Thomas has spoken about it multiple times in opinions. I worry about Amy Barrett and Kavanaugh on this one though.


6 posted on 01/14/2024 5:55:10 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: nwrep

Thank the shrub for this scourge upon the court. This charlatan “conservative” did an about face as fast as any other, all the while with being Chief Justice. Like that was an accident as well.
Be very curious to see how he sides in this case.


7 posted on 01/14/2024 5:57:10 PM PST by bantam
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To: CFW

Same!


8 posted on 01/14/2024 5:57:49 PM PST by bantam
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To: CFW

John Paul Stephens, a cryptoDemcrat appointed by a greasy RINO.


9 posted on 01/14/2024 5:58:26 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: nwrep

End the Chevron Insurrection!


10 posted on 01/14/2024 6:08:37 PM PST by epluribus_2
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To: CFW

Please God, rid us of administrative agencies, the 800 pound gorilla.


11 posted on 01/14/2024 6:09:37 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: CFW

Bfl


12 posted on 01/14/2024 6:19:25 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: CFW

I have not heard of the “Chevron Deference” before. I hope it gets the ax.


13 posted on 01/14/2024 6:23:13 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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If this breach of the US Constitution is fixed will they next go after the big enchilada, Wickard v. Filburn, which is the rationalization for much of the unconstitutional power asserted by the government?
14 posted on 01/14/2024 6:25:46 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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Kelo vs. City of New London should also get another look. Using eminent domain to facilitate the transfer of property from one private owner to another is blatantly unconstitutional.


15 posted on 01/14/2024 6:33:13 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it now.)
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To: CFW

The only two that might be bigger than Chevron as far as the deep state goes would be if they overturned Wickard, but really, underpinning even that and all of the rest is J. W. Hampton, Jr. & Co. v. United States. (1928)

It’s the difference between taking down some important load-bearing walls and jack-hammering the concrete foundation.


16 posted on 01/14/2024 6:34:51 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Soul of the South
Although that was an awful decision, it was fun the day it was issued with Democratic Underground cursing all the Republican Supreme Court justices who voted for it before they realized that the decision came from the Democrats on the court. Then they went into a flurry of cognitive dissonance.
17 posted on 01/14/2024 6:46:33 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: CFW

They need to be set up to repeal this also - Reynolds v. Sims !


18 posted on 01/14/2024 6:50:11 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: KarlInOhio

My thought exactly.

When “will they next go after the big enchilada, Wickard v. Filburn,”?

THAT one is a total travesty.


19 posted on 01/14/2024 6:50:17 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: CFW

bump


20 posted on 01/14/2024 7:03:00 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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