Today the Supremes issued one of the most important decisions of the term and potentially one of the most important decisions going forward. And the reason I’m doing this is because the Five didn’t even mention it.
In West Virginia v EPA the court said that the Obama EPA overstepped its bounds with their Clean Power Plan because something this major requires specific congressional action not just an agency deciding that some vague delegation gives them carte blanche.
Now this has put a major roadblock in the climate change frauds ability to implement their planet destroying nonsense. There is no way that they can ever get their nonsense through Congress.
Now here’s the more important point. This is the first step in overturning Chevron deference! What is Chevron deference you ask? Let me enlighten you. In the case of Chevron v NRDC 1984 the Supreme Court declared that when Congress delegates to an agency a non specific authority then courts must defer to the expertise of the agency and cannot second guess these experts. (As an aside, the notion that agency commissions are made up of subject matter experts is total nonsense. They are political actors. I saw it in my agency where people with no expertise in nuclear power matters were appointed to the commission. And Just look at what I have previously pointed out. Virtually everyone of Magoo’s cabinet appointees is clueless in the matter they are in charge of.)
Now I know that some and maybe now a majority of the Supreme Court believe that Chevron is wrong and that Congress must actually pass the legislation that agencies are now making up. If they follow through going forward, they can put an end to the unelected administrative state, ie the swamp