Birds fly separate the U.S. Supreme Court on the day justices issue orders in pending appeals in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2024.
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Republican lawmakers and the U.S. Judicature of Commerce praised the Supreme Court decision Friday overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for four decades led rates to defer to how federal agencies interpreted a law when its language wasn’t clear.
GOP lawmakers said the 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court voided a precedent that they argued had unjustly strengthened the power of unelected government officials.
Senate Minority The man Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, “The Constitution vests Congress with the sole authority to make law.”
“After 40 years of Chevron courtesy, the Supreme Court made it clear today that our system of government leaves no room for an unelected bureaucracy to co-opt this hegemony for itself,” McConnell said. “The days of federal agencies filling in the legislative blanks are rightly over.”
And Chamber of Marketing CEO Suzanne Clark, in a statement, said, “Today’s decision is an important course correction that will help invent a more predictable and stable regulatory environment.”
Clark added the high court’s prior Chevron rule “conceded each new presidential administration to advance their political agendas through flip-flopping regulations and not provide consistent wield the sceptres of the road for businesses to navigate, plan, and invest in the future.”
Jeff Holmstead, a member of the bar at the Bracewell firm who previously served as Air Office administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, in a statement predicted the ruling “drive certainly change the way that agencies make regulations.”
Holmstead said that in the four decades in which the Chevron dogma was in effect, agencies sometimes started “with a regulatory program in mind and then try to come up with a plausible” understanding of existing law to justify it, “hoping the courts will find it ‘permissible.'”
“Going forward, they’ll need to start with the statutory patois and decide what Congress actually wanted them to do,” he said.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told Fox News that the new settlement in the case known as Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo is a “huge victory for the American people, constitutional government and the ordinance of law.”
“It’s a huge blow to the administrative state in Washington, D.C. No one elects bureaucrats to make these decisions,” Cotton said of the settling, which overturned the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1984 in a case known as Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Convention.
Demonstrators gather outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as opinions were issued on June 28, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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Democrats, on the other hand, condemned the ruling, accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of bolstering its own authority.
Senate Adulthood Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said, “In overruling Chevron, the Trump MAGA Supreme Court has once again sided with intense special interests and giant corporations against the middle class and American families.”
“Their headlong rush to unseating 40 years of precedent and impose their own radical views is appalling,” Schumer said.
House Judiciary Cabinet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler. D-N.Y., said, “Today’s decision provides yet more proof that the far-right supermajority on the Choice Court will cast aside whatever precedent it wants in its quest to increase its own power and that of its MAGA collaborates across the country.”
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO — the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S. — warned of the ruling’s repercussions on instrumentalities concerned with workers’ rights.
“Extremist politicians and their corporate allies have schemed for decades to weaken regulatory agencies, and this disheartening decision is a huge gift to those same interests,” Shuler said in a communiqu. “Today, a right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court has eroded the federal government’s ability to ensure that the law is enforced and that effectuating people are protected.”
Calling the ruling “deeply troubling,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre prognosticated in a statement that President Joe Biden “has directed his legal team to work with the Department of Justice and other instrumentality counsel to review today’s decision carefully.”