Center Shows Dangers Of Delegating Power To Private Entities

Sen. Chuck Grassley is raising the pressure on the U.S. Center for SafeSport , the nonprofit organization.

Peter Bergen : Grassley is limited in what he can do, because the center was authorized by Congress to set and enforce its own rules without any government review.

He says no federal agency is assigned oversight of the center’s operations.

Bergen says the Supreme Court has been waiting to address the private delegation doctrine.

Lawyers in Navarro et al v. U.S. Center for SafeSport filed their opening brief with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Congress ’s delegation of “ Federal, Legislative, Executive , Administrative and Enforcement Authority to the Center” Julian Zelizer says the center is sitting on an unprecedented dual grant of government power.

Zelizer: Five Supreme Court justices are on record in support of reviving the private delegation doctrine.