Michael Ramirez for January 18, 2024

Not pictured: plutocrat with chainsaw cutting down the tree.

Oh, please. Outside of The Federalist Society, who gave a dan? The Chevron Deference was never an overarching aspect of law. It merely established the precedence that people who are educated experts in a field should have input on such issues as impact. Judges have always been free to consider other expert testimony and have overruled agency recommendations, sometimes even going further than the agency recommended.

This is merely another action to dismantle the abilities of the Federal government. MAGAts will applaud, until they realize they actually lost power.

Truly ignorant cartoon, displaying a complete lack of understanding of how either federal agencies or Chevron deference works.

We’ve left it to the “experts” to decipher Congress’s intent, the “experts” to write the regulations, and the “experts” to enforce it all. Our government was never intended to work this way.

It’s not so much that Federal inspectors were required on the boats & ships but that the operator of the vessel had to pay the cost of having that person on board. And that was because a Federal agency interpreted a poorly written law to read that the agency could do it. That is just plain ludicrous!

Hopefully the Supreme Court will lop that branch off.

Finally, you start to see the problem. Your vote does not count either. Hoping your Art shines more light.

The very slow moving and inconsistent courts are trying to grab more power than they already have. Sounds to me like yet another welfare ploy for lawyers who can’t get rich without help.

They want it left to Congress to write down what exactly should happen in every situation. Which Congress has no idea what they are, how to do and wouldn’t do anyway since there would be a record on what Congress did.

Its supported by the paradox that our legislature makes decisions on topics that they don’t normally know anything about, so to become educated they listen to the people they are suppose to monitor, learn their issues and more times than not are cooped into becoming champions of the very areas of oversight that they are suppose to keep in check (note – not ground into dust but to monitor and protect the interests of society while doing it). In the old days, it was that simple, now their is the check book that adds problems to the mix and also foreign interference, be it financial or production or good ol propaganda (you listening china and russia). This is a great reminder, Ramirez. Thank you. My only concern is you left off the 4th estate – media, the press, the cartoonists etc. that help shine light on these very issues. rock and roll sir – rock and roll.

Federal agency regulations ARE unconstitutional, since the U.S. Constitution was SPECIFICALLY written to LIMIT the federal government’s power to what is IN the Constitution, and federal agencies SHOULD be limited to enforcing laws the ELECTED Congress writes and passes!

Only a Republican would think that people elect a politician for their expertise in areas that they know nothing about.

I think it’s great that MTG will help decide which pharmaceuticals are safe. She obviously knows all about drugs.

The Supremes look to decide that the health, safety, and welfare of the American people means nothing when weighed against corporate profit.

And in recent news…

Banks are fighting limits on overdraft fees.

And oil companies and pharmaceutical companies are trying to get the Supreme Court to void all regulations.

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Because they aren’t making enough money.

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All Trump Disciples believe any and all deregulation benefits them personally, just like tax cuts for the rich and patriotic multinational corporations.

I miss the days when being educated and qualified was a good thing. Sadly, now some schmuck politician can override what a doctor thinks is the best for their patient’s health. As long, as that patient is a woman, of course.

As a small business owner and having successfully sued city hall, I learned there is always a bureaucrat who is more than willing to step up to the plate and take a law to a level that was never intended.