Pacific Legal Foundation was among the plaintiffs in last week’s Supreme decision that restrains the authority of agencies. They were suing on behalf of a South Dakota farmer who lost the use of part of his land after a federal agency decided that temporary snowmelt was a “wetland”. They also sued for a trucking company that was penalized for mine safety violations after a federal agency defined their garage as a “mine”.
The Supremes also ordered the specific lower courts that had agreed with the agencies to take up the cases again.
The online arguers on both “sides” fail to understand the basic purpose of these decisions. In all of the recent big cases, the Supremes are simply trying to restore BALANCE between the three branches, and specifically telling Congress to stop screwing around with speakers and filibusters and start LEGISLATING.
I had donated to PLF before, and after hearing about their welcome victory and correct understanding of the issue, donated again.
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Overall, this has been a good week for the real constitution. I despaired that any part of the government would ever try to reclaim it. Now the Supremes have carved through decades of entangled weeds to reveal a major section of the written document. They’ve used a broad mowing machine, not the previous miniature clipper that only symbolically helped one defendant, who was often dead or ruined by the time the case got to the Supremes.
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