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Spin Zone / Re: High Court Balance at Stake as Kennedy Retirement Talk Heats Up
« on: May 07, 2018, 11:03:55 AM »America wouldn't have been dismantled and forever destroyed if Hillary had been elected.
Not sure I agree with that. Obama set a dangerous precedent with his use of executive orders to make changes to agency rules and I believe Hillary would have accelerated it...in fact, I expect the next Democrat president to do it more than Obama did. The issue is that whatever changes are made become the rule of law until they are later changed (presumably under a different president). Obama could have ordered the ATF to deem any semi-automatic rifle capable of holding more than 5 rounds to be a military weapon and that would have started a chain of events that would have resulted in the rule of law outlawing nearly every hunting rifle. The order would have been implemented through the administrative rules making process and eventually turned into a rule. The only recourse of this is for the Congress to countermand the president's directive or a legal challenge in a left slanted legal system.
Personally I believe that sometime in the next 20-30 years Congress will have to revoke the power of agencies to make their own rules, exactly because of how Obama used executive orders to do that. But will that really get better when Congress has to pass laws to change agency rules? The Administrative Procedures Act was enacted because Congress could not keep up with the pace of changes that needed to be made in 1946, what hope do they have of doing it now?