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  • Decoy

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    Supreme Court Grants Cert in Case That Could End Deference to Regulatory Agencies, Challenge ATF Regulatory Power

    the Supreme Court granted cert in a case, Kisor v. Wilkie, that specifically challenges whether Auer deference is constitutional. With the addition of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — both of whom have expressed reservations about the current state of administrative law — there may now indeed be the five votes need to begin to undo the decades-long abdication of power to the vast federal bureaucracy, including BATFE.
     

    Sundazes

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    Wow. Thanks for posting.
    I wonder if this will truely do anything other than create more bureaucracy.
     

    JohnnyE

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    Whether a favorable ruling is handed down, and if so, whether it has any meaningful effect, is all TBD. Nevertheless, this issue cries out for reform.
     

    delaware_export

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    Going to be interesting. Imagine all the regs that all fed agencies have that end up making folks or companies violators.

    All the alphabet soup groups. I am nothing like a lawyer, but I just don’t see them crashing all that framework.

    I agree that .gov having bureaucrats make the rules has made things so bloated and disfunctional but trashing the entire framework would be ... interesting
     

    Mike

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    Going to be interesting. Imagine all the regs that all fed agencies have that end up making folks or companies violators.

    All the alphabet soup groups. I am nothing like a lawyer, but I just don’t see them crashing all that framework.

    I agree that .gov having bureaucrats make the rules has made things so bloated and dysfunctional but trashing the entire framework would be ... interesting

    Say the court does crash that framework. If the past is any indication of future behaviour, I'd expect there to be a timetable for the alphabets to get into compliance. The alphabets will of course do nothing, until the final year, or after, when the sanctions start to be levied.
     

    Blacksmith101

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    If the legislatures had to spend more time making laws that would actually work instead of passing the buck to agencies they would have less time to shoot their mouth off, look for graft for themselves, and lie to potential voters. Sounds like a win to me.
     

    ironpony

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    Too big to fail comes to mind.
    The atf makes rules that can make one a felon. I thought there was a different way for this country to pass laws? There's a cartoon about it!


    My guess is they will say it is now common place and should stand, in Maryland only! :)
     

    Decoy

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    Anybody care to hazard a guess on this one....think the court will make a very narrowly focused ruling to avoid creating chaos?

    The SCOTUS has been reluctant rule against the government under Roberts but who knows, maybe it's time for a shake up.
     

    Bob A

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    Congress is responsible for this can o' crap being kicked down the road for such a long time.

    They don't have the stomach or the wit to write the laws that are necessary, so they pass the burden to regulatory agencies to write the rules we're forced to live by.

    And there's no elected official to blame, and no way to remove unelected regulators. How is this in any way legal or acceptable?
     

    whistlersmother

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    Jan 29, 2013
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    Congress is responsible for this can o' crap being kicked down the road for such a long time.

    They don't have the stomach or the wit to write the laws that are necessary, so they pass the burden to regulatory agencies to write the rules we're forced to live by.

    And there's no elected official to blame, and no way to remove unelected regulators. How is this in any way legal or acceptable?

    "We have to pass it to see what's in it." She didn't know, no one knew. Everyone had to see what the regulators actually wrote and implemented.
     

    Bob A

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    "We have to pass it to see what's in it." She didn't know, no one knew. Everyone had to see what the regulators actually wrote and implemented.

    Two thousand pages of legislation, and you have to pass it to find out how it works?

    That's ridiculous.

    I agree she didn't know; I'd wager that 99% of that bill was written by staffers - who were careful to isolate themselves from the contents of the bill.
     

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