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The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA
by Jeffrey A. Tucker

The power of the administrative state to destroy liberty and property – to blast through legislation, science, and judicial oversight – was never more on display than in the last two and a half years. One would hope that the deep bureaucracies would have learned their lessons on how not to respond to a new pathogen. There is no evidence they have.

Regardless, the real problem is much deeper. It has to do with the status of the administrative state as the effective governing apparatus of the US. It’s not Congress and not the President. It’s the vast and permanent bureaucracy of 432 agencies and 2.9M bureaucrats who are unreachable by any standard of personnel management.

Dealing with this problem absolutely requires that we get back to fundamentals on what kind of society we want and what is the role of government.

These issues are newly alive, and have come up with a Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA had long imposed an expansive view of its discretion under the Clean Air Act. The court said no: the EPA has been acting illegally all along. This decision echoes a similar federal court decision in Florida concerning the CDC’s mask mandate. The court said the CDC is acting illegally.

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https://brownstone.org/articles/the-mighty-gorsuch-vs-the-administrative-state-quotes-from-west-virginia-vs-epa/

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