You probably missed this Supreme Court decision. It will change how government works.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a seemingly innocuous case about fishing vessels that will reshape how our federal government balances power and is one of the most important steps in forcing Congress to become legislators again.
The new precedent set by the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturns one set by Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 ruling that courts must defer to executive agencies’ interpretations of ambiguities in the law, so long as that interpretation is “reasonable.”
In this case, the National Marine Fisheries Service required a group of commercial fishermen to pay the wages of monitoring programs to ensure they were complying with conservation laws. The original statute did not specify that the wages must be paid by the government, so the government handed the fishermen an estimated cost of $710 per day. Friday's decision sends the fee issue back to the lower courts.
The precedent allowed executive agencies to wildly reinterpret laws in the case of any congressional ambiguity at the whim of whoever was in the White House.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/probably-missed-supreme-court-decision-090953848.html
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