Book contents
- Administrative Competence
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Administrative Competence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The State We Are In
- Part I Making Administrative Competence Visible
- Part II Confronting the Origin Myths of Administrative Law
- Part III The Law of Public Administration
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The State We Are In
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2020
- Administrative Competence
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Administrative Competence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The State We Are In
- Part I Making Administrative Competence Visible
- Part II Confronting the Origin Myths of Administrative Law
- Part III The Law of Public Administration
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On February 29, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13778, “Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the ‘Waters of the United States.’”1 The purpose of this simultaneously ambitious-sounding and dull-sounding Order was to demand the reconsideration of a 2015 regulation – the “Waters of the United States” rule, known as the “WOTUS” rule. The rule adopted a definition of the term “waters of the United States” that defined the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Water Act.2 On signing the Executive Order, Trump remarked “a few years ago the EPA decided that navigable waters can mean every puddle or every ditch … it was a massive power grab.”3
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- Administrative CompetenceReimagining Administrative Law, pp. 1 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020