Posted on 05/01/2023 7:46:55 AM PDT by CFW
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the government can require commercial fishermen to help fund a program monitoring herring catches off New England's coast in a case that could undercut the regulatory power of federal agencies.
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Speaking of federal regulations, "Biden Has Added 220 Million Hours of Regulatory Paperwork Since His Inauguration".
https://reason.com/2023/05/01/presidential-paperwork/
This is a HUGE case!!!
It may overturn the Chevron decision that allows regulatory agencies to write their own laws.
If that gets overturned, it will fall back on Congress to actually write legislation with clear rules rather than vague guidelines and “let the bureaucrats figure it out”
SCOTUS v Commercial Fishermen = loss for fishermen, every time it is tried. Usually there attorneys screw up or are betrayed in some other way, their actual arguments never being heard.
See:
U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON v. FISHING VESSEL ASSN., 443 U.S. 658 (1979)
443 U.S. 658
WASHINGTON ET AL. v. WASHINGTON STATE COMMERCIAL PASSENGER FISHING VESSEL
ASSOCIATION ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON
No. 77-983.
Argued February 28, 1979.
Decided July 2, 1979.
Meanwhile china rapes the worlds oceans.
Yes that’s China. But not US fishermen who are so tightly regulated that some have needed a set of law books onboard.
China has no laws about fishing other than meeting fleet quotas set by the Party.
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