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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeil Gorsuch has a grudge against federal agencies. He holds their fate in his hands
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/politics/supreme-court-epa-neil-gorsuch-chevron/index.htmlNeil Gorsuch has a grudge against federal agencies. He holds their fate in his hands
By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst
Published 5:00 AM EST, Wed January 17, 2024
(CNN) - Anne Gorsuch, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, cut a flamboyant, defiant figure in early 1980s Washington as she slashed air and water quality regulations.
She fought with environmentalists, was held in contempt by Congress and eventually resigned under pressure from the Ronald Reagan White House that had championed her. Her memoir was, appropriately, entitled: Are You Tough Enough?
Her son Neil Gorsuch, a Supreme Court justice since 2017, has shown his own brand of defiance and anti-regulatory fervor.
In recent years, Justice Gorsuch has voted against regulations that protect the environment, student-debt forgiveness and Covid-19 precautions. During a Covid-19 spike in early 2022, Gorsuch was the lone justice who declined to wear a mask while sitting on the bench.
He has led calls on the court for reversal of a 1984 Supreme Court decision that gives federal agencies considerable regulatory latitude and that, coincidentally traces to his mothers tenure. The Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases on Wednesday testing that 40-year-old case known as Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which has become the touchstone for resolving conflicts over agency power.
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Neil Gorsuch has a grudge against federal agencies. He holds their fate in his hands (Original Post)
dalton99a
Jan 2024
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flying_wahini
(6,720 posts)1. If he didn't wear a mask, maybe he didn't get vaccinated. Hoping....
TheRickles
(2,103 posts)2. Is that grounds for recusal, that he's his mother's son?
I know it's not, but you know what I mean....
Kid Berwyn
(15,085 posts)3. And people wonder why the rich get richer.
Hope the corrupt turd gets all he deserves.
Johonny
(20,974 posts)4. Typical republican
Regulations bad until they affect me personally. What could go wrong . . . History shows a lot of bad things will happen.
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