Does anyone at all understand the case that overturned Chevron?
Because the facts there are pretty damning and show why federal bureaucrats can’t be trusted to interpret and enforce their own rules.
Basically, the really short version of what happened was this — a family fishing business sued because they were paying $700 a day to have federal regulators oversee their business.
The statute governing the National Marine Fisheries Service says nothing about making their business pay for the cost of their own regulation, and it was just decided along the way that businesses would have to foot the bill for the NMFS’ own enforcement.
Because of Chevron, which grants overly broad powers to bureaucrats to interpret the law, the idea that federal agencies could essentially make their own regs and make people pay if they didn’t have the budget to enforce them was tolerated.
That’s insane.
Imagine if your local cops decided they needed a bigger budget — gotta keep the town safe! — and started stopping your car at checkpoints all over town to make you pay up.
And the mayor and no one else in town could stop them from doing this because only the cops were allowed to determine what was legal.
That’s essentially what the feds were doing here under Chevron. It was outrageous, and the fisheries service’s abuse of power was hardly an isolated instance of federal overreach defended by Chevron.
It was corrupt and needed to end.
I was involved with OSHA years ago. Curious if this ruling effects them
This is a tremendous and seemingly underrated decision — a huge step in curtailing government abuse. Next is to eliminate hate speech (the act alone should be the crime, and there is no need to impute perceived hate additionally) and human rights commissions.