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by efitz 726 days ago
Alternative interpretation:

The courts just remedied a situation where the executive branch of government had arrogated to itself powers reserved to the legislature by the Constitution.

Notably another case ruled on this week did the same thing, by invalidating many agency-specific “administrative courts” and restored the rights of citizens to seek redress in actual courts.

I and many others believe that executive branch agencies (“the federal bureaucracy“) has become an out-of-control unaccountable 4th branch of government, and I for one am delighted to see them reined in.

Note that agencies will still be able to perform enforcement; they just have to stay within the bounds set by laws and they will no longer be the sole arbiters of those bounds.