SCOTUS Renders Government Agencies Powerless in Courts Across America

Justice Kagan wrote, “Today, the Supreme Court flips the script: It is now the courts (rather than the agency) that will wield power when Congress has left an area of interpretive discretion.”

June 29, 2024: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) over-ruled the 1984 case Chevron vs. Natural Resources, which became known as Chevron deference. Chevron deference requires courts to defer to experts from government agencies, such as the IRS, FBI, CIA, FDA, CDC, HHS, and NIH, to interpret the ‘ambiguities of the laws’ that govern those agencies and the corporations and public policies they regulate.

Pfizer’s Legal Defense Strategy Got Buried Today

In the Brook Jackson case, Pfizer’s attorney Carlton Wessel audaciously reminded the judge that the judge does not have the authority to question statements or decisions made by the FDA, even if it’s apparent that the FDA acted in a reckless or illegal manner.

Judge Truncale clarified with Pfizer’s attorney, “So what you're saying is if the FDA gets it wrong…They just get it wrong…and… we live with it? There’s no oversight by a court. That's it. That's correct?”

And Pfizer’s attorney responded, “Yes, Your Honor.”

Pfizer’s legal defense strategy has been that; no matter what they do, no matter how many rights they violate, no matter how many adults and children they harm, there’s nothing that can be done in a court of law to stop them; because the FDA and other US government agencies publicly affirm Pfizer’s illegal and criminal behaviors as “legal.”

That just ended today.

Per SCOTUS Blog, “Justice Roberts rejected any suggestion that agencies, rather than courts, are better suited to determine what ambiguities in a federal law might mean. Even when those ambiguities involve technical or scientific questions that fall within an agency’s area of expertise.”

Chevron Deference Stripped Courts of Judicial Power, Increased the Power of Government Agencies and Violated the Constitution