The Supreme Court Gives Back to Congress the Power It Gave to Executive Branch Lawmaking Many Years Ago
Paul Craig Roberts- The liberal incompetents that Democrats have placed on the Court refused to defend the Supreme Court’s assertion of its authority over law.
Prior to the 1930s “New Deal” regulatory agencies, Congress controlled the law. A statute mean what Congress said. Thereafter, a statute meant whatever the regulatory agency said it meant. For example, I have explained in my columns many times and in my book, The New Color Line, that the EEOC used the 1964 Civil Rights Act which explicitly prohibited racial quotas to impose racial quotas. From the 1930s forward a “law” passed by Congress was nothing but an authorization for a regulatory authority to define the law by how it wrote the regulations governing its meaning and enforcement.
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