Folks,

A brand new Supreme Court decision handed down today overturns a legal precedent known as the Chevron doctrine – which has been the backbone of the function of the federal government for 40 years.

Today’s ruling constitutes a massive power grab from a rogue, illegitimate court, and all of us are going to pay the price.

Fun fact, this actually traces back to Neil Gorsuch’s mother. (I’ll come back to this in a moment.)

Here’s how the Chevron doctrine works (or rather...how it worked):

Congress passes a law instructing the EPA to, let’s say, regulate carbon emissions to stop the advance of climate change.

Because Congress doesn’t have the requisite expertise to determine exactly how much emissions have to be restrained, or how to do it, that mandate falls to the scientists at the EPA.

This doctrine stems from a 1984 case called Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, where SCOTUS ruled that subject matter experts at federal agencies are responsible for deciding how to implement any law passed by Congress.

It was a slap in the face and a massive reprimand against Ronald Reagan’s EPA administrator, who was actively working to shut down climate action decades before the climate emergency by insisting that the EPA didn’t have the authority to establish specific guidelines without explicit language in the original statute.

That EPA administrator’s name was Anne Gorsuch.

The Chevron doctrine has allowed the subject matter experts in federal agencies to do their jobs without interference from partisan lawmakers, lobbyists, and rogue judges for 40 years.

Until today.

In today’s decision, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, SCOTUS has thoroughly revoked the Chevron doctrine. Agencies can now only enforce laws as written (usually by lobbyists) – laws then interpreted by a corrupt federal judiciary.

The long-term impacts of today’s decision are too massive for me to begin to unpack. The only remedy is an immediate and radical overhaul of the Supreme Court, and serious, concrete steps to remove the cancer that is corporate money in politics.

Rick Larsen is bankrolled by the same industries that have been trying to strip the Chevron doctrine for years. He is directly responsible for pushing deregulation at the Congressional level, and he cannot be counted on to address this crisis.

But I can.

I’m the only candidate in this race who refuses money from corporate PACs and lobbyists, and the only one with a 35 year track record of standing up to corruption, empire, and climate annihilation.

Anne Gorsuch served as head of the EPA under Ronald Reagan, where she slashed and burned so many regulations protecting clean air and water that Congress held her in contempt and forced her resignation.

From Congress I will introduce legislation to rein in corrupt judges and partisan administrators. I will hold hearings and push for legislation mandating federal agencies to act in the best interests of people and the planet – not profits.

The cancer of corporate money runs deep in American politics. Rooting it out is going to take time, but we’ll never get there if we keep electing politicians who take their blood money.

I’ve never taken a dime from corporate PACs or lobbyists – and I never will. With your help, we can win this seat away from one of the worst corporate Democrats in Washington, and make history electing the first Green Party member to Congress.

In solidarity,

Jason Call