The Big One- Supremes decimate federal regulation

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed May 29 15:52:59 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>


> Stephen Breyer's pre and post-confirmation career could be summed up
as
> one of opposition to effective regulation of business. Indeed, shortly
> after Breyer was selected by Clinton in May of 1994, Ralph Nader told
U.S.
> News & World Report that Breyer was "hostile to regulatory law
> enforcement" and that Clinton had thereby "locked the court into an
> anticonsumer, antiworker, antienvironmental mode." Nader,
unfortunately,
> was quite correct.

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Nay, the court has been locked into a regulatory mode that was simply exacerbated by the issues B. deals with. The whole regulatory/anti-regulatory binary is bogus-as the institutionalists pointed out long ago. Indeed, one of the heavy discussions amongst US greens is Nader's attachment to the regulatory-administrative State vis a vis addressing larger *constitutional* questions regarding industrial organization and theories of the 'large' corporation[s]...

Ian



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