Vax mandate got thrown out after millions were forced to get the Vax when they didn't want to. Damage done.
Think of inefficient power production build out in the US due to EPA stopping nuke plants.
Biden stopping Oil permits....etc.
I've already stated my opinion. Anything that takes control from unelected bureaucrats is good imo. The govt is hugely bloated and needs to be downsized. We are 35T in the hole and something has to give.
The US is now producing more oil than at any time in its history, it feels like wanting a drastic change in how we enforce laws over oil permits is pretty overreactionary.
If people were forced to get the vax, it wasn’t by the federal government unless they were a federal employee, full stop. There was an injunction on the rule before it ever went into effect while it went through the courts.
Federal agencies have nothing to do with the national debt, the budget is passed by Congress.
In terms of “unelected bureaucrats” which seems to be the conservative phrase of the day, judges are also unelected. They are appointed by the President just as the heads of federal agencies are appointed by the President.
And the reason those “unelected bureaucrats” have jobs to begin with is because, generally, they’re experts in that field. The people making these policy decisions have spent their entire careers on the subjects that their agency has an impact on.
What you’ve got now is a situation where a judge, who is not an expert in, let’s say, food safety will be in a position to make a decision on how the government can regulate food safety. So what happens when a court rules that the FDA doesn’t have the power to stop a private company from using known, harmful ingredients? What happens when the judge making the ruling gets a financial gift from Nestle or Coca-Cola or some other food company? Some of these regulations are actually pretty important to our day to day life and now we’re one “unelected judge” ruling away from drug companies not having to follow any protocol on approving medicines, food companies being able to put whatever they want into our foods, companies being able to dump toxic waste wherever they choose, etc.
Maybe we’ll find that judges mostly continue to defer to the agencies, but it just takes one ruling to really upset the apple cart on how the federal government goes about ensuring that we have safe food or clean water or that airliners have to meet certain safety standards. Have you ever noticed how there are some countries that seem to have airline disasters with some frequency, while the US has virtually none? Thank you FAA!
On the other hand, maybe it is good that the executive branch have a little less power, but it feels like shifting that power just from one branch to another isn’t the answer. Now the courts have a significantly lopsided amount of power. And these are lifetime appointees, they never face an election, they’ll never even face another approval hearing. Whereas the President faces an election every 4 years and the heads of these agencies are rotated usually every election cycle.
I suspect that eventually decisions will be made that conservatives will hate and liberals will love and we’ll all just kind of have a cyclical love/hate relationship with this ruling.
I also am surprised that Trump people like this so much since it flies directly in the face of Trump’s stated desire to have MORE Presidential authority and a longer reach for the federal government, and actually undercuts a major part of Project 2025’s initiative, which is to turn federal bureaucrats into essentially political appointees that the President can fire at will. This leads me to believe that someone like you who is SO fervently pro-Trump doesn’t actually understand this decision and doesn’t actually have a true “why” as to their support of it other than the Conservative media and twitter accounts you follow telling you that you should like it.
