Agencies ‘knew this was coming.’ What does — and doesn’t — change after Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling
Agencies are likely to see an uptick in legal challenges to their regulations — especially those that impact the environment and health care.
Agencies are likely to see an uptick in legal challenges to their regulations — especially those that impact the environment and health care.
Unelected civil servants mostly work to stay with the law and administrative norms. The Chevron challenge is complicated.
Conservative Supreme Court justices have voiced support for weakening the power of federal regulators, but it’s unclear whether a majority would overturn a major 40-year-old decision. Billions of dollars are potentially at stake in front of a court that was remade during Donald Trump’s presidency by conservative interests that were motivated as much by weakening the regulatory state as by social issues including abortion. The court on Wednesday debated whether to overturn a 1984 case colloquially…