Prior to the 1930s "New Deal" regulatory agencies, Congress controlled the law.
Having watched the power of Congress reduced to nothing, its own in question, and the enormous power now concentrated in the executive branch, the Supreme Court has made an effort to restore a balance of power between the three branches of government.
In overturning the Chevron ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that judges must interpret the statutory intent of Congress in passing a statute and not simply defer to regulatory agencies' interpretations of the statute.
The independence of executive branch regulatory agencies had gone so far that the Securities and Exchange Commission was making in-house, that is within the agency, decisions on civil penalties.
The Supreme Court ruled that penalties require jury trials, and that the SEC is not prosecutor, judge, and jury.
Justice Gorsuch said that the Supreme Court's decision takes law out of the hands of the federal branch and places it again where it belongs in the courts' reading of the legislature's intent.
The liberal incompetents that Democrats have placed on the Court refused to defend the Supreme Court's assertion of its authority over law.
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