On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down their long-awaited opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overruling decades of settled precedent and effectively gutting the power of federal agencies to regulate on behalf of consumers, workers, animals and the environment. Loper Bright threatens a wide range of federal regulations, including policies that govern food safety and water pollution. The decision could undercut the authority of the federal agencies that regulate the meat and dairy industries and protect endangered species, meaning the loss of Chevron could also be a major loss for animals.
The Loper Bright case centered on a 40-year-old administrative law doctrine known as Chevron deference, which requires courts to defer to executive agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Under Chevron, agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration had considerable leeway to interpret federal laws and issue regulations based on their specific knowledge and expertise. The Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Friday dramatically shifts power away from these federal agencies and towards the increasingly conservative federal courts.
Chevron deference has been law since 1984, when the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. In the decades after the case was decided, Chevron became shorthand for the idea that courts should defer to federal agencies when they are interpreting and applying ambiguous parts of federal statutes. As long as an agency’s interpretation of a statute was reasonable, a court could not substitute its own interpretation of a law for that of an agency.
As a result, Chevron deference gave executive agencies wide latitude to fill in the gaps Congress left in sprawling, complex pieces of federal legislation. Federal agencies were able to issue regulations based on their specific expertise and respond to developing situations and needs, including climate change and the Covid pandemic. Loper Bright and its companion case, Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, take that power away from expert agencies and give judges the massive authority to make complicated, often highly technical or scientific policy decisions about everything from dangerous pollutants to life-saving medications, as well as the meat and dairy industries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-supreme-court-decision-could-shape-animal-farm-regulations/ar-AA1pD16v?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=262c0859951d49bf909d970bcd881d5f&ei=21
Amazing how the Republic managed to survive 197 years without Chevron - but will now fall to pieces without agencies making shit up as they go along. The list of items that they presented as things that NEEDED to be handled without the oversite of congress were EXACTLY the sort of things that should have been discussed, argued and fought over in congress instead of "speedily passed" without a dissenting opinion even being considered. US agencies got Covid 100% wrong and did so without even considering and at times in opposition of the science of the matter.
With deference to the Chevron decision the US has still had financial disasters, ecological disasters and even health disasters - usually WORSE than anything experienced before Chevron.
The Loper Bright case centered on a 40-year-old administrative law doctrine known as Chevron deference, which requires courts to defer to executive agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Under Chevron, agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration had considerable leeway to interpret federal laws and issue regulations based on their specific knowledge and expertise. The Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Friday dramatically shifts power away from these federal agencies and towards the increasingly conservative federal courts.
Chevron deference has been law since 1984, when the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. In the decades after the case was decided, Chevron became shorthand for the idea that courts should defer to federal agencies when they are interpreting and applying ambiguous parts of federal statutes. As long as an agency’s interpretation of a statute was reasonable, a court could not substitute its own interpretation of a law for that of an agency.
As a result, Chevron deference gave executive agencies wide latitude to fill in the gaps Congress left in sprawling, complex pieces of federal legislation. Federal agencies were able to issue regulations based on their specific expertise and respond to developing situations and needs, including climate change and the Covid pandemic. Loper Bright and its companion case, Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, take that power away from expert agencies and give judges the massive authority to make complicated, often highly technical or scientific policy decisions about everything from dangerous pollutants to life-saving medications, as well as the meat and dairy industries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-supreme-court-decision-could-shape-animal-farm-regulations/ar-AA1pD16v?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=262c0859951d49bf909d970bcd881d5f&ei=21
Amazing how the Republic managed to survive 197 years without Chevron - but will now fall to pieces without agencies making shit up as they go along. The list of items that they presented as things that NEEDED to be handled without the oversite of congress were EXACTLY the sort of things that should have been discussed, argued and fought over in congress instead of "speedily passed" without a dissenting opinion even being considered. US agencies got Covid 100% wrong and did so without even considering and at times in opposition of the science of the matter.
With deference to the Chevron decision the US has still had financial disasters, ecological disasters and even health disasters - usually WORSE than anything experienced before Chevron.
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