On the night of Monday, June 24, news broke that Julian Assange had entered into a plea agreement with the United States government.
Not only had they built most of their entire case on the assumption that Assange did not have the right to free speech, but any conviction enshrining a foreigner's free-speech rights would create a precedent that the US government was uncomfortable with.
More good news came on Friday when the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine.
To understand what the administrative state is and how the Chevron doctrine helped build it into the monstrosity we have today, we have to go back to its beginning.
That year, in the case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that whenever a dispute arose between citizens and an executive agency because of ambiguous language in legislation relating to the agency's function, the courts are to defer to the agency's interpretation of the law.
Because politicians are more interested in passing legislation that sounds good to voters-like bills simply making the air clean or keeping Americans safe from terrorism-than in being precise, this Chevron doctrine essentially lets federal agencies interpret laws however they'd like.
The reversal of the Chevron doctrine alone is not enough to roll back the entire administrative state and all the destruction it causes, which will continue as long as the millions of federal bureaucrats remain unfireable.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/julian-assange-chevron-doctrine-and-case-against-pessimism
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