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Posted: 1/19/2015 9:54:02 AM EDT
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 9:54:55 AM EDT
[#1]
The "Fuck you 'cause we said so" law?
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 9:57:03 AM EDT
[#2]
They are free to make it up as they go, as long as nobody stops them.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 9:58:21 AM EDT
[#3]
Case law empowers administrative agencies to interpret statutes, subject to judicial review.
Nearly every statute passed by Congress empowers the administrative agency tasked with enforcing the statute to make rules as past of the enforcement process. That is referred to as delegation of authority.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:00:57 AM EDT
[#4]
If you mean the law that allows agencies to adopt rules implementing laws that have already been passed you're probably thinking of what the feds and many states refer to as the "Administrative Procedures Act."
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:00:58 AM EDT
[#5]
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:01:24 AM EDT
[#6]
A lot of laws are vague. Law enforcement has the ability to enforce their interpretation unless a court comes up with a different interpretation.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:04:59 AM EDT
[#7]
Hence the issue... The legislature creates the law, the executive administers the law.  Administering the law means writing the administrative procedures to be used (regulations).  Unfortunately, the executive seems to be writing rules to enact the law in a manner that does not follow the intent of Congress when they passed the law.  Normally the judicial branch could be used to overturn these rules, but the executive branch has castrated the independent judiciary.  Instead of a representative republic with systematic checks and balances, we now have a monarchy. Having some semblance of control over 1/3 of the government does nothing to reign in the other 2/3's.  Power of the purse?  Give me a veto proof majority and that would be a partial solution to forcing the executive to comply with the intent of the law.  Changing the judiciary takes longer and requires controlling the other two branches.  


Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:05:32 AM EDT
[#8]
Delegated Authority... not a law per say but a mechanism of transfer through Legislative Action with the passage of laws and the creation of angencies.



By creating an agency, the administrative law states what their roles and duties are. Once that is done, through delegated authority. The agency in question is given the authority to enforce laws passed by the Legislature that tie in with that agency's mission and goal. If the new laws are administrative themselves then the agency in question can act in a manner that they can interpret the meanings of the law and implement it how they see fit.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:07:04 AM EDT
[#9]
Most laws include a clause along the lines of: The Department of ______________________ may promulgate such rules and regulations required in order to establish and enforce this law.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:11:34 AM EDT
[#10]
Congress doesn't pass real laws anymore.  They pass "frameworks" which allow the agencies to fill in the blanks.  Pelosi wasn't lying when she said "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it".
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 10:33:01 AM EDT
[#11]
seems like the issue is when these 'rules and regulations' take on the force of law and people get fined and jailed for breaking them
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 12:06:16 PM EDT
[#12]
The problem we have nowadays is that the courts have abandoned the Nondelegation Doctrine and any semblance of separation of powers between the legislative and executive branch.

The nondelegation doctrine was all but gone in 1984 when the courts decided agencies could interpret the limits of their own authority in Chevron USA v. NRDC, and it was totally eviscerated in 1989 by Mistretta v. US, which held that it's good enough for Congress to enact "broad general directives" leaving agencies with the power to fill in all those annoying little details that have the force of law.

ETA: In my view, abandonment of the nondelegation doctrine is right up there with the bastardization of the commerce clause as the root cause of unbridled expansion of federal authority.
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 12:09:57 PM EDT
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Congress doesn't pass real laws anymore.  They pass "frameworks" which allow the agencies to fill in the blanks.  Pelosi wasn't lying when she said "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it".
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show me a law written by any congress that gives the details on how to implement and administer said law.

they've never provided the detail on how to administer any laws...
Link Posted: 1/19/2015 12:12:20 PM EDT
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show me a law written by any congress that gives the details on how to implement and administer said law.

they've never provided the detail on how to administer any laws...
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Congress doesn't pass real laws anymore.  They pass "frameworks" which allow the agencies to fill in the blanks.  Pelosi wasn't lying when she said "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it".


show me a law written by any congress that gives the details on how to implement and administer said law.

they've never provided the detail on how to administer any laws...


They used to. Then the courts let them off the hook when they decided they couldn't be bothered with the details and separation of powers anymore. See the post above yours.
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