01/17/2024

Case Before SCOTUS Brought by Fishermen May Gut Federal Rulemaking Power

A system in place for decades could be ended by the court's super-majority

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear a case that could eviscerate the way the federal government regulates, well, everything. A system in place for decades has governed how judges review curbs on air and water pollution, gun safety measures and workplace protections.

But all of it could be upended by a conservative supermajority on the court at the request of an unlikely set of plaintiffs: a group of herring fishermen based in Cape May, New Jersey. The case has implications far beyond the fishing industry and has attracted support from conservative legal foundations, the Gun Owners of America, and a trade group for electronic cigarette-makers, among others.

One of them is Bill Bright, a first-generation fisherman whose family has followed him to the sea.

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