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Chris
06-11-2017, 11:53 AM
The system for the people is rigged against the people.

The Tyranny of the Administrative State (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tyranny-of-the-administrative-state-1497037492) lays out the proble:


What’s the greatest threat to liberty in America? Liberals rail at Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and his hostility toward the press, while conservatives vow to reverse Barack Obama’s regulatory assault on religion, education and business. Philip Hamburger says both sides are thinking too small.

Like the blind men in the fable who try to describe an elephant by feeling different parts of its body, they’re not perceiving the whole problem: the enormous rogue beast known as the administrative state.

Sometimes called the regulatory state or the deep state, it is a government within the government, run by the president and the dozens of federal agencies that assume powers once claimed only by kings. In place of royal decrees, they issue rules and send out “guidance” letters...

Unelected bureaucrats not only write their own laws, they also interpret these laws and enforce them in their own courts with their own judges. All this is in blatant violation of the Constitution, says Mr. Hamburger, 60, a constitutional scholar and winner of the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Prize last year for his scholarly 2014 book, “Is Administrative Law Unlawful?”


Mr. Hamburger points out that Preamble and Article 1 begins “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress.”


As solutions he suggests making government officials financially accountable but today they’re protected tby “qualified immunity.” The President could require new rules be submitted to Congress for approval and for dispute resolution in regular courts instead of byadministrative judges. Congress could go through regulations and decide which ones to enact into law. The Courts could reject "decisions like Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984), which requires judges to defer to any “reasonable interpretation” of an ambiguous statute by a federal agency.... Mr. Hamburger says. 'It requires judges to abandon due process and independent judgment. The courts have corrupted their processes by saying that when the government is a party in case, they will be systematically biased—they will favor the more powerful party.'"

Peter1469
06-11-2017, 12:17 PM
We have mentioned this often. Congress has ceded its authority to the executive in massive ways. This was part of the Trump campaign.

MisterVeritis
06-11-2017, 01:51 PM
This is a core theme of Constitutional conservatives.