Why the Supreme Court’s decision on the Chevron Deference matters.
A busy US Supreme Court dropped yet another jurisprudential bomb in the recent case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which reversed the longstanding precedent of Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The 1984 Chevron decision served as a four-decade foundation for judicial “deference” (essentially, the benefit of the doubt) when reviewing administrative regulations and actions by government agencies. Liberal voices protest that Chevron’s reversal will undermine science and restrict agencies’ ability to fulfill legislative directives; conservatives hail the decision as an overdue constraint of runaway administrative technocracy. Loper has shifted the legal landscape going forward: here’s how.
Ending Chevron Deference
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