Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined me this AM:
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HH: Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida joins me. Good morning, Governor. Welcome back.
RD: Good morning. How are you doing?
HH: Good. Yesterday, Loper Bright was on the docket at the Supreme Court. You’re one of the few people I don’t have to really brief about Chevron deference. How important is it that Chevron deference be overturned, Governor?
RD: Well, I think it would restore the proper structure of the Constitution. What the Supreme Court has essentially greenlit over many, many decades is the idea that the executive branch, and then now what’s turned into a permanent fourth branch of government with the bureaucracy, that they basically can make law. And they get to implement laws in ways that Congress may never have intended, but the Court should just step out of it and say that the executive bureaucrats are experts, and let that happen. And that has caused a huge amount of power to flow to the unelected bureaucracy. So reversing Chevron deference, I think, restores a proper sense of checks and balances.
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