The U.S. Supreme Court refused Nov. 25 to once again consider whether Congress is disregarding a long-held legal doctrine and giving too much power to federal agencies.
Last term a short-handed Supreme Court refused to reinvigorate the “non-delegation doctrine,” which prohibits lawmakers from effectively passing off their legislative authority to another branch of government. The doctrine was used to upend New Deal legislation in the 1930s, but has been dormant since.
Conservatives and libertarians eager to dismantle the so-called administrative state are eager for the court to find that Congress has violated separation of powers and to curb executive authority.
But the justices refused to take up Ronald Paul’s and Arnold Caldwell’s appeals, who each claim that Congress violated the doctrine when it delegated to the attorney general the decision of whether sex offender registry laws should apply retroactively to those who were convicted of sex crimes before the reporting requirements were enacted.
IMO,
Once a man enters a plea & waiver, he or she waived right to the non delegation clause and its protections. While I’ve not yet read either ruling nor case either description…. I do not need to.
Does anyone else see this as the beginning of the end? To hell in a hand basket.
I cannot remember offhand but what is the case SCOTUS decided to rehear this term after hearing it last term? Anyone remember? Is it related to this topic?
Mike German, Author:
Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the new FBI damages Democracy.
Since when do authorities dissolve their own power. Never because Administrative conservators by definition are compelled to expand agency jurisdictional boundary and tax dollar appropriations.
In America🇺🇸, another Shame-Day on the Registry.
Meanwhile, in Germany🇧🇪: https://www.newsweek.com/germanys-highest-court-rules-convicted-murderer-has-right-forgotten-online-1474561
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a “statement” that signaled his support for “revisiting” the “non-delegation doctrine”. But a “revisit” might mean undoing a large part of the U.S. Government: the power that has been delegated to “Administrative Agencies”.
This video below was made by an attorney that posts on YouTube daily. He made this video to discus the Gundy vs United States and Ronald W Paul vs United States. He feels that Justice Kavanough is signalling that he wants to hear a better case with the delegation issues. So perhaps this issue is far from dead.
Justice Kavanaugh Wants to Undo the Government – Could this be a Good Thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvkc1CYFUG4
😠 Yes, RM, because the ex post facto punishment of Registrants is not a clear enough argument AGAINST the unconstitutional delegation of authority?? I agree with you – it’s mind-blowing. How could anything be more clearly inappropriate than having the authority who is going to do the charging decide how laws will be created and applied?! What case could possibly offer a more clear cut argument??? 😠
🏦 Isn’t this the same “Non-Delegation Doctrine” that was the basis of Gundy v. United States?: 🏦
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/484375-justice-thomas-rues-missed-opportunity-to-curtail-government-power