Left Freaks Out Over Supreme Court Ruling re Chevron Deference
Yesterday, MDN brought you the news the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision that overturned a 40-year-old case establishing the leftist utopian administrative state, colloquially called the Chevron deference case (see U.S. Supremes Overturn Chevron Case, Reins in Leftist Bureaucrats). Now faced with the dismantling of their power (power derived via backdoor regulations), the left is, quite literally, freaking out. And they are doing so publicly, trying to scare the general public into thinking life as they know it will end. Life as the parasitic left knows it will end, but life for the common citizen will become dramatically better.
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Leftists (aka liberals, Communists, socialists, and leaders of the Democrat Party) believe they are smarter than you, they know more than you do, and they should be able to make decisions that affect your life outside of the laws created by duly elected members of Congress. For decades (some 40 years), we in the U.S. have lived under the tyranny of the bureaucratic administrative state following a court decision commonly referred to as the “Chevron deference” case. That case, decided in 1984 (ironic, no?), gave broad powers to federal agencies like the EPA and other executive branch agencies to create, in essence, their own laws (called regulations) without any specific delegation of authority by Congress to do so. It has led to the radical loss of freedom as bureaucratic leftists seized power to enact rules they demand YOU live under. No more! Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case that nullified and threw out the Chevron deference doctrine. This has HUGE implications for the entire oil and gas industry, including the Marcellus/Utica.
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