This is Michael Popoc. Legal AF. The United States Supreme Court, super right-wing majority,

just screwed themselves, as we like to say around here on Legal AF, because they decided they needed

as an article of faith for their federalist credentials to throw out something

that's been up their backside for the last 50 years. A decision called Chevron, which touches

every one of our lives one way or the other for the 50 years it was on the books.

You may not have known what it was, you may not have known what the Chevron deference was

that federal judges were required to give to each agency and cabinet in the federal government

and its technical experts about rules and regulations that they promulgated. Congress passes big acts, the Clean Water

Act, the Education Act, a voting Act, something about Medicare, health care providing, labor, employment, big acts.

And then up until two weeks ago, they deferred to their agencies, and there are a number of

agencies, somewhere I've seen totals as much as

438 agencies and sub agencies of the United States government. 137

executive agencies right things like the Department of Agriculture,

Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Health and Health, Interior, labor, state, you know, you name it. Urban redevelopment. It touches every one of our lives. Social security, Medicare, you name it. And what these agencies were doing

since 1984 until about two weeks ago is that when it wasn't that clear, or even sometimes when it was very clear,

crystal clear, in a congressional act,

like let's take the Clean Water Bill.

Clean Water Bill says that the purpose is

to eliminate all water pollution or air pollution by 1985.

Okay, that didn't happen and one of the major reasons it didn't happen is because every time Republicans in the GOP get into the presidency and appoint executive agency positions.

They always put some sort of industry person, they put a coal miner, a coal mine owner as the

head of the EPA, right?

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