The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to side with small fishing companies challenging decades-old precedent that instructs courts to give deference to agency interpretation of laws when the language is ambiguous, legal experts said.
The court’s conservatives — namely Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — repeatedly took issue with the government’s inability to define just when the “ambiguity” that requires deference to an agency’s reading of a law kicks in. But the court’s liberal justices expressed concern that, without Chevron deference, judges would step into the role…