While everyone was focusing on the US Supreme Court practically immunizing Donald Trump from prosecution a few weeks ago, the High Court finished its turn by unleashing a ruling that will have a resounding effect touching nearly every aspect of American life for years to come. In an audacious move, the Supreme Court’s right wing majority reversed Chevron deference. That is the 40 year old doctrine basically deferring to federal agency experts on their reasonable interpretation of laws within their expertise. Up until this summer, deferring to experts whose life’s work was building a bank of knowledge on specific issues made sense, given that Congress never would be able to pass laws that cover all possible aspects of a specific issue. But according to the conservative arm of the High Court well down with deference, the judiciary shouldn’t be the one doing all of the interpretation. Judges are not and cannot be experts on every possible issue, to rule that the courts may disregard those with institutional expertise not only disregards precedent, but destroys protections for many of us Americans. This power grab will blow up in the faces of those on the bench and those living their everyday lives. labor laws affecting workplace harassment, extreme heat work conditions, eligibility for overtime, paid pregnancy accommodations, these all are subject to being blocked now that the courts cannot defer to the Labor Department’s experts on how to implement these laws. The efforts to slash emissions from gas powered vehicles and boost Evie sales is now in jeopardy given that the court’s ruling sidelines at EPA is expertise. I wonder what right when Wonderboy Elon Musk thinks about his conservative court’s ruling now that Tesla will likely take a hit, sick Americans will suffer to in house lab developed medical tests that doctors and patients rely on for diagnosing serious diseases may go unregulated. Now that the FDA experts have been sidelined from regulating tobacco safety to providing low income food assistance to monitoring Boeing’s fraud. No issue regulated by a federal agency is safe now that Chevron is dead. So long as big businesses have a buck to make, they’ll fight these agencies with the goal of being allowed to operate unchecked. The vast majority of companies do not want to disclose their carbon emissions, face penalties for mistreating employees or pay fines when they craft shoddy aircrafts. These corporate giants long for the days documented by Upton Sinclair in the jungle, and may indeed may have it now that the Supreme Court decided to eat Chevron. What makes SCOTUS decision to be the expert. Even more wild is that the court just had to correct one of its opinions in an EPA case, because justice Neil Gorsuch repeatedly confused nitrous oxide, which is a laughing gas with nitrogen oxide, a toxic air pollution. If a man can’t tell the difference between a gas that makes you giggle, and one that gets your lung disease, you think that he defer to the experts. But no, no matter how you look at it, the judiciary isn’t informed enough to come up with decisions that will not adversely impact our society. They need neutral experts who have built careers gaining knowledge in specific areas and can see all of the moving pieces. That is without the obscurity brought by bottom lines, boards of directors and shareholders. Because I assure you, these corporate giants will have their own experts and these paid guns will likely get the courts to side with them.
End of Chevron is an open invite for corporate corruption
By Straight Arrow News
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 40 years of “Chevron deference” in a landmark ruling that experts say will cause a “legal earthquake.” The 6-3 conservative opinion upends a long tradition of relying on neutral expertise to interpret and execute laws and regulations. Broadly speaking, the ruling empowers judges and corporations at the expense of impartial experts and government officials. The decision also paves the way for additional pro-corporate decisions in the years ahead. Consequential as it may be, the court’s Chevron ruling was overshadowed only days later by its even more controversial ruling in Trump v. United States.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Adrienne Lawrence revisits the case that ended Chevron deference and warns Americans about the far-reaching impacts of the June 28 ruling.
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The following is an excerpt of the above video:
This power grab will blow up in the faces of those on the bench and those living their everyday lives. Labor laws affecting workplace harassment, extreme heat, work conditions, eligibility for overtime, paid pregnancy accommodations, these all are subject to being blocked now that the courts cannot defer to the Labor Department’s experts on how to implement these laws.
The efforts to slash emissions from gas-powered vehicles and boost EV sales is now in jeopardy given that the court’s ruling sidelines the EPA’s expertise.
I wonder what right-wing Wonderboy Elon Musk thinks about his conservative court’s ruling now that Tesla will likely take a hit.
Sick Americans will suffer, too. In-house lab-developed medical tests that doctors and patients rely on for diagnosing serious diseases may go unregulated now that the FDA experts have been sidelined.
From regulating tobacco safety to providing low-income food assistance to monitoring Boeing’s fraud, no issue regulated by a federal agency is safe now that Chevron is dead. So long as big businesses have a buck to make, they’ll fight these agencies with the goal of being allowed to operate unchecked.
While everyone was focusing on the US Supreme Court practically immunizing Donald Trump from prosecution a few weeks ago, the High Court finished its turn by unleashing a ruling that will have a resounding effect touching nearly every aspect of American life for years to come. In an audacious move, the Supreme Court’s right wing majority reversed Chevron deference. That is the 40 year old doctrine basically deferring to federal agency experts on their reasonable interpretation of laws within their expertise. Up until this summer, deferring to experts whose life’s work was building a bank of knowledge on specific issues made sense, given that Congress never would be able to pass laws that cover all possible aspects of a specific issue. But according to the conservative arm of the High Court well down with deference, the judiciary shouldn’t be the one doing all of the interpretation. Judges are not and cannot be experts on every possible issue, to rule that the courts may disregard those with institutional expertise not only disregards precedent, but destroys protections for many of us Americans. This power grab will blow up in the faces of those on the bench and those living their everyday lives. labor laws affecting workplace harassment, extreme heat work conditions, eligibility for overtime, paid pregnancy accommodations, these all are subject to being blocked now that the courts cannot defer to the Labor Department’s experts on how to implement these laws. The efforts to slash emissions from gas powered vehicles and boost Evie sales is now in jeopardy given that the court’s ruling sidelines at EPA is expertise. I wonder what right when Wonderboy Elon Musk thinks about his conservative court’s ruling now that Tesla will likely take a hit, sick Americans will suffer to in house lab developed medical tests that doctors and patients rely on for diagnosing serious diseases may go unregulated. Now that the FDA experts have been sidelined from regulating tobacco safety to providing low income food assistance to monitoring Boeing’s fraud. No issue regulated by a federal agency is safe now that Chevron is dead. So long as big businesses have a buck to make, they’ll fight these agencies with the goal of being allowed to operate unchecked. The vast majority of companies do not want to disclose their carbon emissions, face penalties for mistreating employees or pay fines when they craft shoddy aircrafts. These corporate giants long for the days documented by Upton Sinclair in the jungle, and may indeed may have it now that the Supreme Court decided to eat Chevron. What makes SCOTUS decision to be the expert. Even more wild is that the court just had to correct one of its opinions in an EPA case, because justice Neil Gorsuch repeatedly confused nitrous oxide, which is a laughing gas with nitrogen oxide, a toxic air pollution. If a man can’t tell the difference between a gas that makes you giggle, and one that gets your lung disease, you think that he defer to the experts. But no, no matter how you look at it, the judiciary isn’t informed enough to come up with decisions that will not adversely impact our society. They need neutral experts who have built careers gaining knowledge in specific areas and can see all of the moving pieces. That is without the obscurity brought by bottom lines, boards of directors and shareholders. Because I assure you, these corporate giants will have their own experts and these paid guns will likely get the courts to side with them.
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