Emergency Rule Emergency? How Authorities Are Invoking Crises to Exercise Unprecedented Power

…”Administrative agencies use the issue of the day to do what they wanted to do anyway,” said John Vecchione, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. “With student loans, they’re trying to get more juice out of COVID. They’re going to try anything to do what they wanted to do anyway, then address questions about statute and if the action is in [the legal text] or not.”…

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