The “Is The Major Questions Doctrine Bogus?” Edition

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court’s gutting of administrative authority in West Virginia v. EPA, the case coming next term that could upend U.S. elections, and the Highland Park shooting. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley for The Atlantic: “The Nondelegation Doctrine Is A Fable” Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley for The Columbia Law Review: "Delegation at the Founding" Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Susan Elizabeth Shepard for Willamette Week: “A Student at an Oregon Community College Says Instructors Flunked Her for Being a Porn Actress. She’s Suing.” John: How Normal Am I? David: Twitter thread about: Jaroszewicz, et al: “How Effective Is (More) Money? Randomizing Unconditional Cash Transfer Amounts in the US” Listener chatter from Jocelyn Frank: “Humanity’s First Cosmic Gallery of Children’s Art: What the Youngest Members of Our Young Species Most Cherish About Life on Earth” Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabbest.
0:16.8	For July 7, 2022, it's the is the major questions doctrine, focus, and addition.
0:23.2	I'm David Plott's of CityCast.
0:24.8	I'm in Vermont, not my usual haunted Washington DC, I'm in green and beautiful Vermont.
0:30.5	I'm joined as ever by Emily Baszlons in New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School.
0:36.4	And you, Haven, hello, Emily.
0:38.2	Hey, David.
0:40.0	And by John Dickerson of CBS News of everything at CBS, of all possible roles at CBS,
0:47.1	from New York City.
0:47.9	Hello, John.
0:48.6	Even a Kaiser role.
0:50.2	Oh my gosh.
0:51.2	You're representing World War One German interests on CBS.
0:56.1	I knew that CBS journalists were compromised.
0:58.4	I didn't realize how compromised they were.
1:00.4	Wow.
1:01.3	This week on the Gabbest, a Supreme Court carousel, first, how ginormous is the Supreme Court's
1:08.0	decision to bar the EPA from regulating CO2 emissions in the way that they wanted to regulate CO2 emissions.
1:16.1	Then also how ginormous is the Supreme Court taking a case that could overturn free and fair
1:21.9	presidential elections.
1:23.6	And then how will the Highland Park shooting affect thinking about guns and vulnerable young people?
1:30.1	Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter.
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