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  • High court strikes at bureaucratic rule

    Roger Harnack, Franklin Connection|Updated Jul 1, 2022

    "But the Constitution does not authorize agencies to use pen-and-phone regulations as substitutes for laws…" U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote that and more in his 19-page concurring opinion in the West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (Case No. 20-1530). The Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the EPA cannot create over-reaching "laws" that bound entire industries; the ruling was released Thursday morning, June 30. The leftwing champions of so-called "...