Elizabeth Jo
speaker
2,299 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
Elizabeth Jo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 1.
Appearances
But in a democratic administration, an agency that tends to provide more enforcement, more regulation, that always turns out to be a bridge too far.
Not always, but often.
And of course the blame is, well, why are you doing this extreme set of regulation?
Congress didn't allow you to do this, or if Congress wanted you to do this, they should be more specific.
Of course, Congress made the choice to give these agencies a lot of power.
Maybe it wasn't this particular Congress, but it was the institutional body of Congress that said, Well, we don't really know what we're doing.
Let's give the authority to the agency.
Well, not necessarily that the agencies themselves are unlawful, but just that the president has total control over the person at the top of these agencies.
Or increasingly a form of agency authority that folks had thought were
more protected or or in less danger were multi-member boards that had staggered terms, often with bipartisan membership.
And there that board was supposed to outlast any one particular uh presidential term.
Well, it seems like even that too is going to be vulnerable in some way if the Supreme Court during this term is going to be cutting away at those protections even further.
Амнатчас мізят окурс.
Whatever an agency does, you just get whipsawed every time there's a new administration.
Right.
Trevor
I
Well that's right.
And in particular if you have a president who decides in the case of Trump in a second term, that some agencies just shouldn't be agencies.
There's not much to argue about if you completely gut the agency.
Showing 761–780 of 2,299 · page 39 of 115
← Previous
Next →