Happy New Year, everyone. I apologize for missing my Wednesday posting. I started a post on things we can learn from the Space Frontier Act, but it’s a dead bill and my heart wasn’t in it. So I moved on.
Instead, I wanted to let you know about a book, Judicial Fortitude: The Last Chance to Rein in the Administrative State, I just purchased and which I’ll likely be discussing in the weeks ahead. I learned of it from a Wall Street Journal book review, which made it sound like it discusses concerns I’ve had, including the tendency of Congress to “enact vague statutes that express broad goals, empower executive agencies to fill in the details, and leave courts to clean up the ensuing mess. The result can look like executive overreach and judicial activism, but the root of the problem is legislative dereliction.” I’m thinking, of course, of various proposals that the federal government license all “space activities,” which are nothing but invitations to Congress to cede all legislative power to some agency in the executive branch. The author recommends that the courts enforce the constitutional requirement for separation of powers.
You argue like I do! Love it!