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Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling by ericfr11 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @05:02PM (#40833340)
> The public had clearly voted against immigration and free trade. At that point, the job of the federal bureaucracy was to put aside their own views about whether immigration and free trade were good things, and use their skills to implement the agenda of their duly elected new boss.

You mean a new boss put in place by an Electoral college, which didn't represent the majority of the people? Majority of the country didn't vote for the 2016 President

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Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling by rayiner on Saturday June 29, 2024 @07:12PM (#40833934)
You mean the guy who won the only contest that anyone was trying to win? You can complain that San Francisco would have won the Super Bowl if field goals were only two points but we have no idea who would have won under different rules.

Trump won the vote that determines who represents the people in the federal government. There was no other vote. You can add up the individual state votes, but that is a meaningless number because nobody is trying to win that. Fun fact: Trump also would’ve won under the rules used by most other advanced democracies for selecting the executive, because his party won both the most seats and the most absolute votes in the House. But that counterfactual also is irrelevant.

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