Holy shit, that is the *opposite* of reality. Agencies have people with expertise in their subject matter to interpret their enabling statutes and craft rules and regulations. Ffs
Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."
I teach h.s. civics. My intro. to the bureaucracy is this hypothetical: suppose you want to be sure that when you take an aspirin it doesn't kill you. You have two choices as to who will test it. One is me, who has spent my entire adult life studying, participating in, and teaching about (1/ )
about politics, including while I practiced law. The other is the A.P. Chemistry teacher. (I then joke that all I remember from h.s. chem. was something about some number of avocados.) Even the 15, 16 year-olds get it, go with the Chem teacher, not the lawyer. Maybe SCOTUS should talk to them. (2/2)
US will achieve complete combustion from the chemical reaction of "judges know more about science than the egghead PhDs" mixed with "it ain't bribery if we say it ain't"
