Re: “Conservative justices appear skeptical of agencies’ regulatory power” [Jan. 17, Nation & World Politics]:
The Supreme Court docket is getting ready to gutting the regulatory skill of presidency companies.
How many people keep in mind the case of thalidomide? It was marketed world wide within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties as a drug to be taken by pregnant ladies for nausea. As we speak we all know it induced extreme congenital deformities and toddler loss of life. The one factor that stood between the U.S. and the horror the remainder of the world confronted was the Meals and Drug Administration and a single regulator, a lady, Frances Kelsey. She rejected the drug and prevented numerous tragedies.
The American shopper desires protections from planes that fall out of the air, vehicles that burst into flame, banks that cheat the buyer. All method of issues that the “little man” can’t power enterprise into offering however the authorities can.
Do you want your bacon and eggs within the morning? Would you like them freed from illness? It’s these pesky laws that implement a protected meals chain.
Don’t name then laws, name them protections.
Thank the Supreme Court docket when “caveat emptor,” purchaser beware, will apply to the whole lot within the title of defending us from these pesky laws.
Karren Gratt, Redmond
