Posted on 01/15/2024 11:55:50 AM PST by Enterprise
Last week, a federal appeals court overturned a Biden administration rule governing dishwashers. This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case involving the regulation of commercial fishing.
Both are seemingly minor regulatory scuffles that normally would attract little public attention.
But they could mark the beginning of the end of the bloated, unaccountable, extra-constitutional “administrative state” – which today imposes $2 trillion in costs on businesses and consumers and every day eats away at our freedom.
The dishwasher story began during the previous administration when President Donald Trump pushed regulators to allow consumers to buy dishwashers that, well, wash dishes.
As we noted in this space at the time, federal efficiency mandates had become so strict that it took more than three hours for a dishwasher to do (poorly) what older models did in an hour. Under Trump, the Energy Department allowed for a new class of appliance that could do the job in an hour.
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The second, seemingly unrelated news happens this week when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving commercial fishing vessels. This case gives justices the opportunity to turn the regulatory Leviathan inside out.
It case involves a mandate by another regulatory agency, the Commerce Department, which not only told commercial fishing vessel owners that they had to take federal fish inspectors on board but also had to pay the inspectors’ costs.
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First issue in the article, dishwashers. Judges use dishwashers too don't they? And as consumers, maybe they were happy that Trump injected some common sense into the manufacture of them to make them work faster. And then, surprisingly (/s) the Biden administration canceled Trump's plan. Could it be that the some judges finally saw the light about how abusive the regulatory powers are?
Second issue in the article is forcing commercial fishing vessel owners to take federal fish inspectors on board and forcing the owners to pay the inspectors' costs. This has an unending possibility for all businesses doesn't it? How many businesses can now be forced to pay inspectors' costs, and what will be the limit on what those costs are? Man oh man, talk about letting the genie out of the bottle!
Judges need power to heat and cool their homes too, like the rest of us. And yet, through government intervention, we have blackouts which endanger lives in severe weather conditions. Do the judges finally understand that?
Judges fly on airlines too don't they? And do they now understand that the chaos is largely due to overregulating air travel?
Judges fuel their vehicles like the rest of us, and they see the excess cost of fuel due to overregulation of the energy industry. And even if they can afford the artificially inflated high cost of fuel, they understand that their family and friends are pinched financially by government rules. Will they finally put the brakes on the regulators?
Immigration? Daily, there are stories of the disaster occurring at our southern border. But even more, now that illegal aliens can go anywhere they want, leftist run cities are being impacted. Leftist politicians are complaining and the judges must be hearing them. Will the courts finally side with governors who are struggling to enforce immigration law? Do the judges finally understand that the Biden administration has abandoned its Constitutional duties to guard our borders, and has instead lead the charge to conspire with the cartels to traffic children, flood the country with illegal drugs, register illegal aliens as Democrats in a thinly disguised effort at massive election fraud, and let tens of thousands of military age males into the country who are not properly vetted, and who may pose an existential threat to us all?
Inflation? Judges must be starting to understand the catastrophic damage inflation is beginning to cause all of us, meaning of course, that they are not exempt from being driven into poverty. I don't know what the courts can do to curb the runaway train here, but I cross my fingers that they are fully understanding the damage uncontrolled government power is doing to this nation.
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...the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended?
Bye, Bye, Utterly Unconstitutional Regulatory State!!!
Our Constitutional Republic will never be restored as long as Sheldon Snook works for John Roberts.
” which not only told commercial fishing vessel owners that they had to take federal fish inspectors on board but also had to pay the inspectors’ costs.”
This almost sounds like a Third Amendment violation, namely, being forced to quarter soldiers in one’s domicile.
Well, we’ll just have to snooker Sheldon Snook won’t we?
Now shut down the Department of Education.
Jackasses never change. These people would have loved to be on the British side during the Revolutionary War.
One of many departments which should perish!
Dishwashers and fishing vessels will take out $2 trillion in regulations? Someday perhaps but not in our lifetime.
San Leandro, Ca. Some meat processor got so fed up with the meat inspectors harassing him he shot one and chased the other down the street and shot him too. A homicide/gun narrative. I thought otherwise.
As long as Snook is counsel to the Chief Justice, and his wife Mary McCord continues to do the crap she is doing, nothing will change.
I believe that McCord and Snook should get the Rosenburg treatment.
vessel owners that they had to take federal fish inspectors on board but also had to pay the inspectors’ costs.
IOW, we need to hire more inspectors, so we need more money because my moron for a nephew needs a job. And nothing like getting him one on the taxpayer dime, with benefits and pension.
Nothing but a jobs fair program, just like the State Dept
Ok. The Good Guys won a coupel of ‘em.
Don’t expect a sudden serious breakout of Sanity.
Keep the pressure on!
Do NOT just doze off in confidence.
It does. It also sounds like a 1A violation, freedom of association and a due process violation. The presumption is the fisherman are going to break the law so they need “monitors” to make sure they don’t? Plus, they have to pay the cost of these inspectors? That’s what taxpayer money is for. I don’t know what the arguments are in the case but it’s definitely gone too far if the government can force you to hire government employees to watch over you while you work.
This has been going on a long long time, I know a guy that has a Big Food Company that makes Salsa, he has to supply a full time office for the FDA Inspector.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen this headline, I’d have the 2 trillion dollars!
Been there, done that.
The enemies of liberty NEVER sleep, so by God's grace, we'll keep watch, like the Watchman on the Tower (not JW's), knowing that the Lord who keeps us NEVER slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4).
I hope in the near future he will be able to politely tell the inspector to GTFO!
Excellent observation! Another way to foist useless DEI hires on to employers! And wouldn’t we be simply shocked if some of those incompetent, stupid, and corrupt hires are related to government regulators?
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