Actor Mark Ruffalo has gone viral again for sharing his thoughts on political events.
The Avengers star has become known for his pro-Palestinian views during the Hamas-Israel conflict, but he recently posted about a U.S. legal decision.
The Supreme Court ruled to overturn the long-standing Chevron deference, which was a 40-year-old precedent that required judges to defer to federal agencies' expertise when interpreting ambiguous statutes. Instead, the courts will now have the final say on these kind of statutes, even on highly technical matters.
Ruffalo suggested that means people, not experts in the relevant fields, would yield control over decisions, which could lead to the potential for corruption.
"One of things that is briefly mentioned is how this ruling opens the door to more corruption in Congress. All the new regulations will mostly be made there by politicians, not scientists," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in a post that had almost 126,000 views at the time of writing.
"Corporations will be lobbying those politicians with lots of money to have these regulations favor them. No matter what your party is we can all agree that politicians can be swayed with contributions."
Ruffalo concluded: "Most of them have a price. That price will be paid by pharmaceuticals, polluting industries, and the banking industry that preys on folks with hidden fees and predatory lending. SCOTUS is corrupted."
Newsweek contacted Ruffalo's representatives by email for comment.
People in the actor's replies were divided over his opinion.
"Where exactly do you think the 'experts' you seem to love come from? Academe and the industries being regulated. Except when the bureaucracy makes the rules and gets to interpret them there is no appeal process and completely arbitrary application and enforcement," replied @psennett.
"Mark, you really think scientists and bureaucrats aren't susceptible to corruption? We just recently found out all the Alzheimer's research for the last 20 odd years is worthless because of corruption," wrote @davidrlroberts.
"We are just switching over to feudalism. It will seem like corruption at first, but once all the people who remember what corruption is are dead it will seem fine. Won't be much longer now. Dems were sneaky—they've already pulled it off. Even like 90% of their voters don't realize they were Trump's biggest support, and certainly the only reason he ever won anything," commented @HainesParrotGuy.
The Supreme Court will "dramatically reshape" the three branches of the U.S. government, according to Joyce Vance, a former United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.
She argued it will lead to enduring "uncertainty and change" in the "administrative landscape."
"Especially since the only way agencies can now avoid having the courts oversee their decisions is to have Congress pass clear, unambiguous laws—something that has rarely been the case and is even less likely with the current political dysfunction in that institution," she wrote on her Substack. "It's important for us to understand that this is a highly technical legal ruling that impacts us all."
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