Court Opinion

ID: 9764063
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:09:00.401855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:52.992930
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DONNELLY, Judge,
concurring.
The whittling away of the nondelegation doctrine “is wrong * * * because it is undemocratic, in the quite obvious sense that by refusing to legislate, our legislators are escaping the sort of accountability that is crucial to the intelligible functioning of a democratic republic.” John Hart Ely, Democracy and Distrust 132 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980). See also Industrial Union Dept. v. American Petrol. Institute, - U.S. -, 100 S.Ct. 2844, 65 L.Ed.2d 1010 (1980) (Rehnquist, J., concurring in result); Menorah Med. Center v. Health and Educ. Facil. Auth., 584 S.W. 2d 73, 88 (Mo. banc 1979) (Donnelly, J., dissenting).
However, I have no right to continue to array my judgment against that of the majority of this Court.
I concur.