The Supreme Court has struck down large portions of the Biden agenda this summer, making it more difficult for Vice President Kamala Harris to make claims about what she helped accomplish as his second-in-command.
Biden and his administration's habit of using executive orders to get around a divided Congress is coming back to bite him now, when Harris needs to rest on those laurels if she has any hope of rallying the Democrat base to her side.
Here are some of the rulings and their implications.
The Chevron doctrine allowing non-elected officials from government agencies to make laws and rules was struck down after 40 years, and could bring an end to what conservatives call the deep state without having to fire anyone.
The statute of limitations for challenging federal regulations was removed, allowing more of those challenges to go forward.
The ability of agencies to use internal judges to settle disputes was stripped away.
Whether Harris gets elected or not, the Democrat power base will be greatly curtailed by these three rulings.
The rulings could further decimate Biden's efforts to shift student loan burdens to taxpayers and
In addition, lower courts are busy starting the process of striking down even more of Biden's executive overreach.
A Texas judge blocked Biden's ban on noncompete clauses, and a Mississippi judge refused to go along with enshrining special treatment for transgender Americans in health care.
Leftist officials are up in arms over the changes.
“We have an extremist Supreme Court with a very political agenda that is willing to overturn decades of precedent,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the House Progressive Caucus chair, said during one interview. “It has changed the legal strategy.”
Biden has trampled on the Constitution with impunity and bragged about it for the last three-and-a-half years, but it's all beginning to catch up to him now.
No doubt they'll continue to lie about what they've done and how, but those paying attention will know the truth.
