TPA Responds to Supreme Court Ruling in West Virginia v. EPA

For Immediate Release                                                                    Contact: Abigail Graham: (202) 417-7235

June 30, 2022                                                                                                    

Washington, D.C. – Following today’s ruling by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) responded to the decision to roll back the administrative state.

TPA Executive Director, Patrick Hedger, offered the following statement:

“For years, Congress has failed to do its job, passing laws filled with lofty goals, but starved of specifics. Regulatory agencies slowly expanded their powers—reaching further than their intended purpose of law enforcement and execution—to fill the gaps left by legislators. The administrative state has thus grown into an unwieldy behemoth, unilaterally legislating, executing, and adjudicating laws, all within individual agencies.

“As a result, crushing regulations have mounted, with the Code of Federal Regulations approaching 200,000 pages, and annual regulatory compliance costs, effectively taxes, reaching well into the trillions of dollars. All of this without much, if any, democratic accountability.

“The administrative state has long been an extra-constitutional abomination. The Supreme Court is right to finally check the extremes of executive overreach and legislative neglect by successive administrations and Congresses controlled by both parties.”

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Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy.