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In order to re-establish the separation of powers among branches of government,

every branch needs to perform its basic clear functions.

Daniel Due of the Pacific Legal Foundation says that means making sure

that we understand what the branches of government should and shouldn't do

and set strategies to put every branch back in its lane.

We have seen sort of, I think, the beginnings of a chipping away at the regulatory state in, at the Supreme Court at least with regard to the

deference that lawmakers are able to or lawmakers some in many cases prefer to give to administrative agencies.

And we have a case now before the US Supreme Court about whether delegations,

certain kinds of delegations are constitutional at all.

So when we think more substantially about regulatory form as reform as a legislative matter,

what's the prize? What do we need to keep our eyes on?

Yeah, I think that when it comes to regulatory reform and all of the power that

legislatures have abdicated to the executive branch.

It's not just the legislative branch that's done this.

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