Why So Much Rides on Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron’ Ruling: QuickTake

The US Supreme Court has its chance to weaken or erase a legal doctrine that gives federal agencies wide berth to interpret unclear laws. The so-called Chevron doctrine, or Chevron deference, spawned by a 1984 Supreme Court ruling, has long been a target for conservatives unhappy with the rulemaking power of executive branch agencies. These conservative critics include Neil Gorsuch, who, as an appeals court judge in 2016, wrote that Chevron allowed executive branch “bureaucracies” to “concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers’ design.” Gorsuch ...