JimHenry2000 said "one very real difference is that laws are made by elected legislators who are accountable to the people. Rules are made by beaurocrats who have absolutely no accountability to the people"
I'm not sure that's true. Bureaucrats are appointed by elected officials, and those officials are affected by their actions. I'm sure that the FCC's net neutrality rules are going to affect the current U.S. administration, one way or another (depending on which side of the political fence you're on).
Ultimately, both rules and laws boil down to the same practical effect. You follow them, or you suffer the consequences.
I read recently, or heard it in the news that the FCC doesn't answer to the president but does answer to congress so rules that they make have to be approved by congress. The rules are federal laws or acts.
But the Chairman of the FCC was appointed by the President.
No. In most cases beaurocrats are hired through the normal civil service channels. Only top administrators are appointed by elected officials (like the President, or Governor, or Mayor for example), and even those elected officials do not make law.
The President is not a legislator (law maker).
But he is an elected official who is accountable to the public.
Not according to him.
Elected officials are ALWAYS accountable to the public. The FCC is part of that accountability.
Trump is so arrogant that "he thinks" he's not accountable.
I got your point. Maybe Trump will get it now as well.
And he does not make or invalidate law, at least not in the U.S.
Jim H.: "He does not make or invalidate law."
But like a pirate radio operator he can ignore the law and nobody seems to do anything about it.
What do you call Presidential Executive Orders?
Rules, not law. Easily un do-able by the next Chief Executive as Trump has un-done so many of Obama's executive orders. If they were law, a President could not un-do them.
That isn up to the Legislature and the SCOTUS.