[Fresh Wind]

Congress makes laws, not the executive branch staffed with unelected bureaucrats, and not the courts.

It’s a long standing practice that legislation is written to be deliberately vague so that the detailed implementation can be handed off to these bureaucrats who have their own agendas to advance. Congress can then lean back on the “it’s not our fault” excuse.

The deep state has taken a hit below the waterline.

[Ciaphas Cain]

One morning when I was in college many years ago (like the late Nineties) I made a stop on the way to school to fuel up. I went inside and the guy at counter in front of me was in a fit because he was being carded for cigarettes. He thought it was a stupid law.

"It's not a law," the cashier - a mid-forties man with a scraggly beard - told him. "It is a regulation. A law is something that is debated and voted upon by people who you and I elected. A regulation is something that is imposed by people you and I don't elect and probably will never see. Most of the rules in this country have no basis in law whatsoever. They are regulations but they are enforced as if they were laws."

It was a lightbulb moment for me, something I've never forgot about.

[PIF]

the detailed implementation can be handed off to these bureaucrats who have their own agendas to advance.

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0bama Care is a well know example of this sort of legislation.