Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
You’d think an editor would have saved this poor author embarrassment by pointing out that *the Roberts Court have been absolutely gutting the authority of the administrative state.* 1/
Text: At the same time, new conservative jurisprudence appears poised to enhance the power of the executive branch. A series of cases at the court suggest that the court's conservative majority is prepared to give the executive branch more deference. Progressives have railed against this jurisprudence, but if the long-term effect of these rulings is to give the administrative state more discretion to act with greater alacrity, then progressives, once elected, should be able to use it to much the same effect.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
They’ve enacted a rotation of power, not just to the executive branch, but within the executive branch, from administrative agencies to the person of the President, their “unified executive” in whom “The executive Power shall be vested” 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
To say progressives might repurpose this for their own ends (i) ignores the Court’s obvious double standard, it offered Biden no such deference; and (ii) defies the core of the progressive project, which was to build an administrative state somewhat insulated from presidential politics + whim. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
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