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Supreme Court Limits Federal Agencies’ Regulatory Power By Reversing 40-Year-Old Chevron Precedent


The decision has far-reaching ramifications.

The Supreme Cort overturned a 40-year-old precedent that gave deference to federal agencies in interpreting ambiguous statutes as they create and enforce regulations. The court’s six conservative justices all voted to overturn what has been known as the “ Chevron doctrine,” rooted in a 1984 case and impacting everything from the enforcement of clean air and water to rules to FCC regulations on broadcasting and the internet. “Chevron defies the command of the [the Administrative Procedure Act] that ‘the reviewing court’—not the agency whose action it reviews—is to ‘decide all relevant questions of law’ and ‘interpret .

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