“Chevron is overruled.”
Those are the key three words in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, decided this morning by the Supreme Court in a 6 – 3 ruling. This is a major blow to the administrative state. Chevron was the 1984 case doctrine that essentially enabled the bureaucracy to run wild and held that courts should defer to their judgment and administrative lawmaking. This ends today
Here’s the key passage:
Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the APA requires. Careful attention to the judgment of the Executive Branch may help inform that inquiry. And when a particular statute delegates authority to an agency consistent with constitutional limits, courts must respect the delegation, while ensuring that the agency acts within it. But courts need not and under the APA may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous. [Emphasis added.]
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson was also decided this morning. I haven’t got very far into this decision yet, but it appears at quick skim to portend an end to the mindless policy of allowing the homeless to park themselves wherever they please in our cities.
You can guess what will be the main focus of this week’s podcast coming out tomorrow morning.
Between these decisions and Biden’s collapse last night, everyone might want to do wellness checks on their liberal friends today.
Chaser—This bit from Roberts’ opinion is golden:
UPDATE—My original contribution to the memeosphere to celebrate this day:
