https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaughs-court-threatens-auer-deference-80f4b3e3169d/ Long and short: This is about reigning in the power of the bureaucracy - think: BATFE - to regulate and ending judicial deference to same. If ThinkProgress is upset about it, it's a good thing. The case in question: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kisor-v-wilkie/ Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation.
I'm sure that as soon as federal regulatory bodies laid down regulations the left does not like, they'd agree.
National Review has their take: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...ase-that-could-help-make-america-great-again/ No wonder ThinkProgress hates this. Huzzah!
Here's what ThinkProgress claims: The reason why is simple. When the law is genuinely unclear, it is better to leave policy matters up to officials who are democratically accountable than to place power in black-robed lords who serve for life. Apparently, they do not understand that appointed bureaucrats, especially lifers, aren't democratically accountable to anyone – and may not even be accountable to the Executive. Of course, they might understand this, and hope you aren't smart enough to catch it.
