[dmatech]

No, but it's perfectly fine for lawmakers to make laws setting these standards (ideally with the input of experts). That's how we get local building codes.

The ultimate power to make policy choices should be made by lawmakers who can be voted out. Bureaucrats are too insulated. An individual bureaucrat can't feasibly be fired by either a President or the Congress.

[jaybrendansmith]

How are bureaucrats insulated, exactly? Congress can change laws whenever they want. Read your history ... when congress first provided the federal government the ability to collect tariffs, they didn't include in the constitution instructions for how the US Coast Guard would work. Hamilton did that, providing regulation for exactly what kind of boats, equipment, employees, and many other details. It would have been unthinkable by the founders that the Supreme Court would be able to vote to disallow the use of a certain kind of boat, or the policing of a specific waterway. These corporations are attempting to get the US Supreme Court to re-litigate the entire 250 years of settled law and regulation. There are no words.

[rob74]

Neither can a Supreme Court judge...

[303uru]

No one is more insulated than SCOTUS, period, end of story. Your point is moot.