The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to regulating the abortion pill mifepristone with a ruling that will continue to allow the pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor’s visit.
The National Labor Relations Board is the federal agency that is responsible for regulating labor and workers’ rights. 15-20 times a year, they use a court injunction to force a company to rehire employees that were fired due to attempted unionization (usually hidden under a BS other reason). The court made it much harder for those injunctions to be granted, meaning unionization efforts are going to be chilled.
The Chevron deference principle refers to a principle stemming from a prior case that effectively defers to federal agencies over courts when there are questions on implicit powers of those agencies. Weakening or destroying this effectively means any power for a federal agency must be explicitly granted in the text of a law, which republicans will never, ever do or allow. This is going to severely undercut the powers of every federal agency we have in varying degrees. Another conservative wet dream.
I’m really, really worried about it. The FDA is going to lose powers it uses to ensure our food and medicine isn’t killing us. The EPA is going to effectively be an advisory agency after this. The FTC looked like it might be back in business this admin, and it’s going to be neutered. I’m not even explicitly opposed to this if our legislative branch wasn’t inept and/or captured, but… we all know it is and it’s not getting better soon.
Hopefully they kill the FDA and all drink raw milk to death, idk.
The National Labor Relations Board is the federal agency that is responsible for regulating labor and workers’ rights. 15-20 times a year, they use a court injunction to force a company to rehire employees that were fired due to attempted unionization (usually hidden under a BS other reason). The court made it much harder for those injunctions to be granted, meaning unionization efforts are going to be chilled.
The Chevron deference principle refers to a principle stemming from a prior case that effectively defers to federal agencies over courts when there are questions on implicit powers of those agencies. Weakening or destroying this effectively means any power for a federal agency must be explicitly granted in the text of a law, which republicans will never, ever do or allow. This is going to severely undercut the powers of every federal agency we have in varying degrees. Another conservative wet dream.
Thanks! And it sounds like we’re going to be screwed once these are changed.
I’m really, really worried about it. The FDA is going to lose powers it uses to ensure our food and medicine isn’t killing us. The EPA is going to effectively be an advisory agency after this. The FTC looked like it might be back in business this admin, and it’s going to be neutered. I’m not even explicitly opposed to this if our legislative branch wasn’t inept and/or captured, but… we all know it is and it’s not getting better soon.
Hopefully they kill the FDA and all drink raw milk to death, idk.
My republican friends can eat bat at the meat market on the corner, I’m gonna stick with the FDA certified grocery store…
You think you’ll have the option?
Yes