Meghan Lapp on SCOTUS limiting power of federal agencies: 'The little guy finally has a fighting chance'

The Supreme Court taking a big axe to the nanny state, essentially overturning what was called the Chevron decision, putting vast limits on what regulations that federal agencies can impose at will. This is a huge win for the fisheries industry as the case revolved around a law requiring vessels to pay for onboard monitors at a cost of up to $700.00 per day. Let's bring in fisheries liaison for Seafreeze, Megan Lap. Megan, just explain what this means to not just your industry, but virtually every business that has had the jackboot of the government put it on your neck in in essence. Well, what this means is that now the little guy finally has a fighting chance. Finally, the citizens of the United States have the same legal rights in court as the United States government. So if agencies think that they're going to be able to continue to exceed their their legislative boundaries, they better start thinking again. You know, Megan, it's you talk about the little guy and you're right. But when the little guy wants to fight the federal government and and agencies, it costs a lot of money. It takes a lot of effort. I'm surprised that the fisheries were able to come together and organize and raise money and resources to make sure they were able to go all the way to the Supreme Court and finally win this case. The only reason that we got to the Supreme Court was because of New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group who took our case for free. And you're absolutely right. And we had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to get a decision. What this means now is that the little guy can actually start winning in District Court and doesn't have to go all the way up to the Supreme Court. So that's that's a very, very big deal. Megan. It was really outrageous what the federal government did. There are essentially monitors or inspectors on fishing boats and they wanted to add more, but Congress did not authorize the money for it. So they put the burden on the fisherman, and you fought it. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's one thing if the government is paying for a government program, but it's a completely different thing if the government is going to make an individual business pay out of pocket for its program. Those are two very different things. Two very different things. Well, congratulations, Megan Lap. Thanks for being with us in the BOTTOM line. We're grateful. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks, Megan. Great to see you again. What is the old saying? Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered? Is that the way it goes? And you saw the abuse that came on the fisheries making them pay $700.00 for these monitors on their boats. And I think the court looked at that along with the Chevron doctrine and said this is insanity. The, the, the Congress never gave the authority and one, they never gave the money. And so now you're going to go after these, these fisheries to pay this massive amount of, of, of cash on again. So when they overreach, that's when they get swatted. But also, I mean, the fact that you're going to now have agencies not be able to interpret what Congress meant by the laws they passed. It actually goes to where it belongs, which is the role of the courts to, to, to determine whether there was specific direction by the Congress to take certain action. It was a huge move by the by Chief Justice Roberts in particular, because usually they fall back on what is called, you know, the stereo decisis, which is if the ruling has been in place for a long period of time, they're just going to leave it there and not tear it up because it's just been the lay of the land. And six three said no way. The National Review wrote this piece by Phillip Klein and he says overturning Chevron is functionally bigger than overturning Roe that it will not in terms of the operation of the federal government. Its effects are far sweeping. It leads he they he writes it leads Congress to increasingly it did shirk obligations of lawmaking and defer authority to agencies. This is a huge win for those of us alarmed by the growth of government Sean Duffy specifically when it comes to actions taken by the executive branch, Joe Biden that have never gone through Congress. This was the knifing of the regulatory state. Beautiful. That's right. And it'll, you know, Don, Supreme Court ripping up the deep state, Donald Trump. This makes it easier.