Free-market principles are cherished by conservatives, and they don't like the unrestricted power granted to these powerful monopolies by the government.
History and precedent establish that this power granted to state legislatures is both plenary and exclusive.
Whingeing now about a power granted to the EU almost half a century ago is bizarre.
It disrupts the strict hierarchies of academic power, granted, but I'm not sure that's always a bad thing.
What is extraordinary is the broad power granted to deposing lawyers who may, under normal circumstances, ask... anything.
Vigilant investors are one answer to the "agency costs" imposed by managers who abuse the power granted to them by shareholders to line their own pockets (see article).
The regulations wouldn't require congressional approval because they would take advantage of the regulatory power granted to agencies by existing laws such as the Clean Air Act.
An attempt to require companies to put graphic images on their labels, another power granted by the 2009 law, has been challenged in court, so far successfully.
By Masha Gessen January 11 ,2018 The story of Moira Donegan and the "Shitty Media Men" list reveals that anonymity is a power granted to only some.
