Striking Down the Chevron Deference: Not Letting the Crazies In

Are you afraid that some crazy will be elected to the White House and start interpreting the laws in outrageous ways?  Just f'ing with you as a tyrant?

Whether you imagine that crazy to be D or R, fear no more!

For the United States Supreme Court has just struck down a precedent that once gave government agencies great power to interpret the law as they see fit!

Thing is, once we could trust the President and his Cabinet.

Times have changed.

I don't need to tell you that so many Americans fear the next President.

We trust the laws passed by Congress back in the days of Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, Regan and Clinton far more than we trust the President today.

And that is why the Chevron Deference is no longer a good idea.

This legal precedent once gave government agencies free reign to interpret the law where the law was not clear.

Liberals like me are now worried, because the Supreme Court that made this decision is Conservative, and this Deference was once used extensively by agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

But now it can be used by some crazy in the White House to bully us.

Which is why it is very good for both Liberals and Conservatives that, in this volatile time, we be forced to rely more on what is implied in the wording of laws passed in less volatile times, such as the time of Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, or the times of Regan and Clinton and the first Bush, rather than rely on our current leaders.

Times have changed.

Striking down the Chevron Deference in the face of these volatile times protects us all.

God loves you, D and R alike!

Sincerely,

David S. Annderson