Steve Forbes Sides With Fishermen Vs. Biden
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Our Analysis: 2 Fallacies
The days of the Democrat Party's purported alignment with 1 the heart and soul of working Americans are long over.
Although Biden portrays himself as a champion of American Labor, his policies have hurt working people and small businesses.
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His green energy agenda stands to 1 destroy the livelihoods of America's fishermen.
The Supreme Court has heard two cases asking the justices to overrule the Chevron deference in Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Under Chevron, courts must accept agency interpretations of ambiguous laws instead of allowing Congress to interpret them through the democratic process.
A favored tool of the Biden administration, Chevron rests power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats almost always to the detriment of working Americans. The cases before the high court began as challenges to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) at-sea monitor program, which places observers aboard commercial fishing vessels to monitor fishermen while they work.
According to the fishermen, the program is intrusive, unsafe, and imposes excessive financial burdens on their businesses. Every day, it is threatening local fishing economies, livelihoods and America's food supply. The costs of this program, in human and economic terms, are significant.
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1 Adding insult to real injury, fishermen are also expected to cover the NOAA monitor's expenses, to the tune of at least $700 per day, despite federal law not authorizing such charges.
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It is no surprise then that during its hearing, 2 Justice Neil Gorsuch observed that Chevron "has this disparate impact on different classes of persons," specifically those "who have no power to influence agencies."
In short, Chevron is a tool wielded by the powerful, in this case the Biden administration, against the powerless: America's fishermen.
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...the 1 far left and their political allies won't stop. In pursuit of his green energy agenda, the Biden administration has 1 forsaken America's working class. From fisherman, to farmers, to small business owners, the essence of America's economy is 1 suffering under his inflationary policies and overregulation. The 1 assault on fishing industries is just the latest example of how difficult it is...
- Loaded language • "Betrayal", "destroy", and "suffering" are very emotionally charged words used to describe the impact of policies in an exaggerated way rather than by factual assessment. And describing Democrats as no longer aligned with "heart and soul of working Americans" and characterizing supporters of wind energy initiatives as the "far left" are definitely efforts to categorize and label groups in a selective, politically biased way. These phrases are examples of rhetorically loaded and emotionally manipulative language interspersed throughout the article.
- Quotation out of context • This does not appear to be a valid interpretation and application of Justice Gorsuch's quote about Chevron deference. His full comment goes into much more nuance about issues with Chevron, and is not addressing the fishing industry, but rather some applications of Chevron to other constituencies (such as veterans and immigrants). And Forbes takes Gorsuch to be assigning motive and blame, calling Chevron "a tool wielded by the powerful...against the powerless." Gorsuch did not ascribe intent like that or directly apply his statements to Biden and fishermen.
References
- Steve Forbes (2024, Feb 8). Biden's betrayal of America's fishermen.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-betrayal-americas-fishermen
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