[Editor’s Note: This week, a new ruling from the US Supreme court chipped away at the administrative powers of the federal bureaucracy. The case, Loper Bright Ent. vs. Raimondo, largely overturned the 1984 Chevron ruling which had solidified the bureaucracy’s power to interpret laws for itself. That is, rather than require the bureaucracy to seek rulings from federal judges on the interpretation of laws, the US Supreme court in Chevron ruled that federal bureaucrats can decide for themselves how Congress’s laws should be interpreted. Obviously, that created vast new powers for the bureaucracy and also erased the line between the executive branch and the judicial branch. That is, if an administrative agency can interpret laws for itself, then it has taken on the powers allegedly reserved to
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