The reversal of the Chevron case by the young Turks, angry old men, and Chief Justice John Roberts who make up the Supreme Court’s conservative majority checked off an important box in the Federalist Society's checklist for reshaping America.
All revolutions must start with sowing chaos and chaos is what will ensue from the reversal of Chevron U.S.A. versus Natural Resources Defense Council, the case which established the 40-year-old precedent of giving deference to the expertise of federal agencies.
Known as “Chevron Deference” the decades-old doctrine simply means that courts assume that federal agencies know what they’re doing when it comes to enforcing regulations in their area of expertise. Thus, when a court determines that a law the agency is supposed to administer contains some ambiguity then the court should defer to the agency’s expertise.
