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Re: familymang post# 742635

Tuesday, 12/20/2022 5:52:03 PM

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 5:52:03 PM

Post# of 793586
The SCOTUS should, if they don't, the US Congress will continue passing laws that experiment with novel forms of federal agency government that bypasses Constitutional safeguards, knowing that the SCOTUS will simply rewrite the Section (s) of law that is Constitutionally offensive with zero consequences.

Here's Justice Gorsuch in Collins: "This Court possesses no authority to substitute its own
judgment about which legislative solution Congress might
have adopted had it considered a problem never put to it.
That is not statutory interpretation; it is statutory reinven-
tion. Indeed, while never uttering the words “severance doctrine,” the Court today winds up implicitly resting its
remedial enterprise upon it—severing, or removing, one
part of Congress’s work based on speculation about its
wishes and usurping a legislative prerogative in the pro-
cess. See, e.g., Arthrex, ante, at 6–7 (GORSUCH, J., concur-
ring in part and dissenting in part); Synar, 626 F. Supp., at
1393. By once again purporting to do Congress’s job, we
discourage the people’s representatives from taking up for
themselves the task of consulting their oaths, grappling
with constitutional problems, and specifying a solution in
statutory text. “Congress can now simply rely on the courts
to sort [it] out.” Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U. S. 509, 552 (2004)
(Rehnquist, C. J., dissenting).2"

Here's exactly what Justice Gorsuch predicted in the remand:

"The Court’s conjecture does not stop there. After guess-
ing what legislative scheme Congress would have adopted
in some hypothetical but-for world, the Court tasks lower
courts and the parties with reconstructing how executive
agents would have reacted to it. On remand, we are told,
the litigants and lower courts must ponder whether the
President would have removed the Director had he known
he was free to do so. Ante, at 35. But how are judges and
lawyers supposed to construct the counterfactual history?
It is no less a speculative enterprise than guessing what
Congress would have done had it known its statutory
scheme was unconstitutional. It’s only that the Court pre-
fers to reserve the big hypothetical (legislative) choice for
itself and leave others for lower courts to sort out."