In 1906 Chicago, Upton Sinclair wrote about how meatpackers would put out poisoned bread for rats, and then the rats, poison and meat would be packaged into sausage and sold to unsuspecting customers in the days before reliable government food inspection. Before safety rules were imposed, workers were injured or killed at their places of employment with alarming frequency. In 2024, the entire world is confronted the possibility of the Earth overheating to the point of cataclysm, and new laws will be needed to protect the globe as new risks are identified.
Over the years, the government has made progress in protecting Americans. Congress has written legislation to protect food safety, the savings of individuals, the environment, the quality of drugs and consumer products and a host of other issues that affect ordinary Americans. But with its 6-3 ruling Friday on a case named Loper Bright Enterprises v.
Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative super-majority demonstrated it cares little about whether regulations will protect people in the future.
Loper overturns the earlier Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council case, . The idea behind what’s been called the Chevron doctrine was that Congress can’t possibly foresee every spec of technical minutia that might crop up in enforcing.
say, clean water rules. Experts at the agencies in charge of implementing those rules could decide what Congress’ intentions were, as long as those experts did so in a reasonable fa.
