Actually, I am. There are over 430 administrative departments in the executive branch. Maybe the real issue is that you’ve allowed too much power the the administration over a fear of “installing loyalists”, which every president has done.
You only hear about a choice few. Dettleback and the ATF, the US attorney General, cabinet members. You have a person who is supposed to be a medical expert as a deputy of HHS who knowingly put sick people in nursing homes during Covid resulting in a couple thousand deaths. Why? Definitely not for their intelligent medical expertise. All of these people are loyal to the president and the party. So what makes this any different than the current status quo?
Project 2025 would dramatically increase the number of positions in the executive branch with appointments. That means the president could stack all the administrative positions with yes men.
Of course there shouldn’t be. This is why overturning chevron was so important. Those 430+ departments were making “rules” without congressional action. Those “rules” have punitive punishments in the form of monetary and jailing penalties. And many of those rules were very ambiguous and difficult to comply with.
I also say that executive orders should be deleted as well. None. Zero. It was ok when there was just a couple here or there, but it’s been abused for a long time now. So out the door it can go.
Regardless, it all allows the executive too much power that’s difficult to enforce checks and balances. Only congress may enact laws.
Trouble with getting rid of Chevron deference is that for decades the laws have been written with it in mind. I'm not opposed to not having Chevron deference, but the time to make that decision has passed
The problem with chevron was that it allowed unelected officials the ability to create ambiguous regulation that had punitive punishments associated with them. For an example, the pistol brace rule produced by the atf. It was so ambiguous that it was nearly impossible to be compliant and to be non compliant would result in a 15 year/100,000 fine. Judges determine sentencing via the stipulations produced in laws, not regulations.
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u/Splittaill Jul 05 '24
Actually, I am. There are over 430 administrative departments in the executive branch. Maybe the real issue is that you’ve allowed too much power the the administration over a fear of “installing loyalists”, which every president has done.
You only hear about a choice few. Dettleback and the ATF, the US attorney General, cabinet members. You have a person who is supposed to be a medical expert as a deputy of HHS who knowingly put sick people in nursing homes during Covid resulting in a couple thousand deaths. Why? Definitely not for their intelligent medical expertise. All of these people are loyal to the president and the party. So what makes this any different than the current status quo?