09/25/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/25/2024 07:24
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Near the end of its 2024 term, the Supreme Court issued several decisions that create fundamental changes in the way federal regulatory agencies and Cabinet departments operate and the way Congress will supervise them. In a new report for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, General Counsel Dan Greenberg finds that these decisions by the Court have opened the door to reforms that will allow Congress to do its job - making laws - more effectively and efficiently.
Decisions with implications for administrative law in the 2024 term include:
"With its landmark decisions in several administrative law cases this term, the Supreme Court has given Congress not a victory, but an opportunity," said Greenberg. "The Court functioned as a referee in these cases, explaining how disagreements between government entities, or between public and private actors, must be resolved in the present and future. Congress now has more authority to make consequential decisions than it has in decades. Congress should seize that opportunity."
Policy recommendations for reform in the report include:
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