The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
This is what the decision by the Republican justices to allow "gratuities" for public officials creates an incentive for.
Ahahahaha this is a settler colonial nation. The colonized are too weak to do anything and settlers have proven for centuries they won't do anything until they absolutely positively have to.
Thinking through this: it will swamp Congress with every minor little detail, bringing progress to a standstill. There's just too much stuff, that's partly why agencies are set up.
AND Dems need all 3 (presidency, house of reps, and Senate) to pass anything (any of these details). Dems have had that for only 4 of the last 24 years. The GOP gets to block any of this when they have a single one of those (20 of the last 24 years). If you thought there was a lack of progress before, it's going to be tenfold going forward. VOTE (for Dems, not 3rd party).
What will happen is that no regulations will get passed, or they’ll continue ask their special interest to write laws for themselves because Congress is too busy to do law making. Ugh.
Great. Awesome. This way our regulatory agencies can be hamstrung just like prosecutors going after crooked cops with qualified immunity. Unless the law specifically states what is to be regulated and how, then agencies can't do shit.
Just like how if the law doesn't specifically state that a police officer can't do a thing, it's fair game!
This is such a disastrously stupid ruling, further curtailing our ability to combat climate change and all but dismisses any authority the EPA and other agencies were once afforded.
conservatives have such a boner for the vagaries of the second amendment, squeezing in as many assault rifles as they can into something original drawn up with fucking muzzle loaded muskets in mind. But as soon as anything vague in law is used to do good, they'd rather throw out democracy than risk doing the right thing.
Theoretically could congress pass laws stating that the EPA has the right to regulate all chemicals if they do choose? I'm sure it would also have ramifications I suppose
This fucking sucks. Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion? I'm so fucking sick of these fascist cunts.
This right wing bullshit is starting to happen all over the western world. Seriously, what can we do about this? What can we realistically do to stop the right? Because everything is being completely fucked.
We're going to have to start organizing at the grassroots level. Folks will need to develop a class consciousness that transcends cultural boundaries and harnesses the power of the internet. The major eras of civil rights expansion and reversal of the otherwise upward mobilization of wealth only came with significant grassroots organization, public protest, political activism, and sadly, bloodshed.
Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion?
They work off belief and faith, that's what religion is. So they project that everyone else thinks and works the same way, aka they think science is a belief and faith. It's always projection.
Does no one else see that Clarence Thomas (who has been accused [with proof] that he took millions in "gifts") is sitting on a court that just overturned a rule the would hold him accountable to receiving those gifts?
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that set forth the legal test for when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a law or statute.
The United States of America used to be thought of as an ideal, an aspiration. Now? It's a shithole backwater filled with toothless grins and guns that anyone with a sane mind wants to avoid like the plague. The USA is the punchline to the joke: "What happens when you give an AK-47 to a chimp?"