Attorney General Alan Wilson fights against the rise of the administrative state

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) –Attorney General Alan Wilson is joining a 21-state friend-of-the-court brief pushing back against burdensome regulations on national markets and the rise of the administrative state.

The brief was filed in support of a challenge to a 2020 federal statute requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a massive reduction in Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) production and consumption. CFC, widely known as freon, is used as a cooling agent in residential, commercial, and automotive air conditioners, as well as refrigerators and freezers. It is also used in products like hairspray, paints, and cooking spray.

“When Congress chooses to surrender its role to a bureaucratic agency, governing power is no longer in its proper place,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Burdensome regulations like this squelch economic innovation for the sake of leftist climate change goals.”

The states argue that Congress giving its power to federal agencies leaves states and courts without a meaningful check on the legislature. They also argue that Congress is more than capable of performing its constitutional lawmaking function.

In addition to South Carolina, attorneys general from the following states joined the West Viriginia-led brief: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

You can read the letter here.