Administrative Agency Abuse

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

I dealt with EEOC abuse of power daily in my legal practice. They get a passing mention in this video - which is mainly about an instance where the EPA got caught in regulatory abuse.

The death of the Chevron doctrine may - MAY - pull the reins in on some of this, but the point remains - power corrupts, and these federal agencies are full of little woke Eichmanns who love to throw their pseudo-weight around. They write regs without authority - they enforce “interpretations” without regs - they can put a “Main Street” business under with a single word. And when they do, they are the exact opposite of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

 

[CO. Hoosier]

I dealt with EEOC abuse of power daily in my legal practice. They get a passing mention in this video - which is mainly about an instance where the EPA got caught in regulatory abuse.

The death of the Chevron doctrine may - MAY - pull the reins in on some of this, but the point remains - power corrupts, and these federal agencies are full of little woke Eichmanns who love to throw their pseudo-weight around. They write regs without authority - they enforce “interpretations” without regs - they can put a “Main Street” business under with a single word. And when they do, they are the exact opposite of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

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C’mon man. We all know this kind of deep state administrative abuse doesn’t exist. People on this forum frequently say so because the deep/administrative/unaccountable/ regulatory state doesn’t have a single leader or an established chain of command.

Seriously, I think the Supreme Court Court is primed to take a long overdue wrecking ball to the deep state. Overruling Chevron and restoring due process in adjudications are just for openers. The Administrative state’s overreach has been an increasing problem for decades which was made significantly worse under Obama and Biden. Trump and his administration didn’t know what to do last time, now I think he has some excellent cabinet secretaries and agency heads who know exactly how to swing the wrecking ball.

 

[IUINSB]

C’mon man. We all know this kind of deep state administrative abuse doesn’t exist. People on this forum frequently say so because the deep/administrative/unaccountable/ regulatory state doesn’t have a single leader or an established chain of command.

Seriously, I think the Supreme Court Court is primed to take a long overdue wrecking ball to the deep state. Overruling Chevron and restoring due process in adjudications are just for openers. The Administrative state’s overreach has been an increasing problem for decades which was made significantly worse under Obama and Biden. Trump and his administration didn’t know what to do last time, now I think he has some excellent cabinet secretaries and agency heads who know exactly how to swing the wrecking ball.

Blame congress for "Deep State". Congress relinquished most of its power to agency bureaucrats and presidential executive orders (fiats) years ago.
"Some" is the correct word.

 

[hookyIU1990]

Blame congress for "Deep State". Congress relinquished most of its power to agency bureaucrats and presidential executive orders (fiats) years ago.
"Some" is the correct word.

Congress needs to get it's shit together and take back a bunch of the power it's ceded to the executive branch over the years.

 

[IUINSB]

Congress needs to get it's shit together and take back a bunch of the power it's ceded to the executive branch over the years.

Ain't gonna happen. If they took back the power they would have to actually work. No effing way, it would eat into grandstanding time on the T and V.

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Blame congress for "Deep State". Congress relinquished most of its power to agency bureaucrats and presidential executive orders (fiats) years ago.
"Some" is the correct word.

It’s an all of government problem. Congress certainty plays a role by avoiding hard choices. SCOTUS’ Chevron decision was correct but its reasoning was flawed because SCOTUS has a tendency to say more than necessary to decide a particular dispute. Of course the administrative agencies love to grab more power and authority. Finally we have the rent seekers, special domestic and foreign interests, and various grifters who know which relatives of which officials to shower with gifts, money, and do-nothing jobs to get what they want whether it’s a clause in new legislation, an agency interpretation, or sole-source consulting contract. Overlaying all of this is the relatively recent phenomenon of agency employees abusing their power and authority to further political or social justice agendas.

This deep state is a huge problem.

 

[All4You]

Congress needs to get it's shit together and take back a bunch of the power it's ceded to the executive branch over the years.

Ain't gonna happen. If they took back the power they would have to actually work. No effing way, it would eat into grandstanding time on the T and V.

Exactly...they don't want that back, because it comes with accountability.

 

[BradStevens]

What if the size of our country, the size of our govt., technology, etc. have made it so that we can't really legislate every single rule on every law efficiently enough and instead we need something like an administrative state to manage it all?

Our system, businesses, etc. have grown accustomed to, and evolved to handle, the administrative state. Beware unintended consequences and Chesteron's fence.