Comment by BurningFrog
1 year ago
You can't blindly rely on people with power to always do the unselfishly correct thing. Such power corrupts, and there needs to be a somewhere to turn when that power is abused.
This is why I like the Chevron decision a lot!
There already was somewhere to turn. Chevron based rules could always be explicitly modified by new legistlative directives. Additionally, courts still had final say and could strike down agency regulations if they were based on unreasonable interpretations of federal law.
This ruling is a power grab by the court that says congress must write explicit rules and can't delegate authority to agencies to determine how to execute a mandate. The ethics rules and enforcement structure for those rules are much more strict for employees of government regulatory agencies than for the supreme court justices. If you are concerned about power corrupting, this seems like a very bad decision.
Sure, but judges have power too. As do companies with large budgets.
It’s a balancing act and I fear overturning Chevron shifts the balance to far in the other direction.