If this guy looks familiar to you, it might not just be because he looks like a contestant in a Michael Scott look alike contest.
It’s because before he was Trump’s CIA director, he was a congressman trying to get rid of the Chevron deference: https://youtu.be/RWmCI-iSWdk
His bill didn’t pass, but it turns out it didn’t need to since the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference last last year.
2016:
The rationale behind these decisions is well explained by Harvard’s Adrian Vermeule in a law review article published today on the subject of deference and due process. He points to the argument that “on grounds of both expertise and accountability, agencies are better positioned than courts to interpret governing statutes.” He also points to a growing body of case law incorporating Chevron principles and to the “Court’s recent emphatic pronouncement that Chevron may actually grant agencies the power to determine the scope of their own jurisdiction.”
Apparently Vermeule eventually came around on Chevron, but interesting he popped up back in 2016 when Ratcliffe first introduced the bill https://thenewdigest.substack.com/p/chevron-by-any-other-name
This is why a legislative solution is badly needed. Rep. John Ratcliffe (TX-04) has therefore introduced a bill, H.R. 4768, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016 (SOPRA), which amends the Administrative Procedure Act to direct courts to conduct a de novo review of all relevant questions of law, “including the interpretation of constitutional and statutory provisions and the provisions of agency rules.”
Exploiting others, stealing their resources, killing without remorse, kidnapping, blackmailing. The United States is the real villain in the 21st century.
We’re the only country to use nukes. We nuked a country not once but twice. We’ve always been the bad guy.
You’ve always been a mixed bag. Some good, some bad. You just dropped the good and stopped pretending about the bad.
I feel like that was different… Unit 731 and the calculations America did on savings more lives by dropping the nukes made that different.
Vietnam however, and all the Banana Republic wars (the wars, not the clothing stores) were definitely villainous stuff.
Because if anything lends legitimacy to a government, its meeting with the CIA /s
Venezuela has had a complicated relationship with international oil firms since crude oil was discovered in its territory more than 100 years ago.
The press isn’t on our side either.
I can’t wait until this is all over and Steve Carell stars in a farcical comedy about him.
LMAO maybe I’m wrong but I give steve carell too much credit to agree and him too little credit not to sue. Doesn’t really strike me as the kind of guy to have a.sense of humor about himself.
Like he probably never really laughs unless he’s melting ants with a magnifying glass or murdering his mistress. You know the type.
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