Ron Eller, a physician assistant at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Miss., is the Republican nominee for Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district, currently held by Democratic incumbent U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson.
Eller, a veteran of the U.S. Army and longtime physician assistant during his service, is a conservative running against an incumbent who has represented the district for over 30 years.
The Mississippi Free Press sat down with Eller to discuss his positions and how his tenure would contrast with Thompson’s. You can read our interview with Thompson here.
The following interview has been edited for length, context and clarity.
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Nick Judin: You feel there is a regime of regulations that act as law when in fact they should not have the weight of law. Walk me through this—we have all these regulatory agencies. Should they exist and how should they enforce regulations?
Ron Eller: There are a lot of regulatory organizations out there, whether we’re talking about the EPA, the FDA, etcetera. You know, if they bring a regulation that needs to be made into law, let’s put it on the books as a law, run it through the appropriate channel.
Recently, there was a Supreme Court case, the Chevron Act, that was brought back up from the 1950s. And the Supreme Court actually overturned that and said these organizations with their regulations–these aren’t laws. These are more of a suggestion. (Editor’s Note: Eller is responding to the Chevron deference doctrine, a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case that the current U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June 2024).
So, you would really dismantle the regulatory state as we know it. You mean that if, say, the EPA wanted to pass new environmental regulation, they would need to present it to Congress. Congress would then need to vote on it, and if they couldn’t pass it in Congress, EPA couldn’t enforce it. Is that right?
And additionally, to that, some regulations are actually more at the state level. You have to go through the
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