The important 1984 precedent gave federal bureaucrats flexibility to interpret the law when the language is unclear.

In a ruling involving a challenge to a fisheries regulation, the court consigned to history a 1984 ruling called Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. That decision had said judges should defer to federal agencies in interpreting the law when the language of a statute is ambiguous, thereby giving regulatory flexibility to bureaucrats.

It is the latest in a series of rulings in which the conservative justices have taken aim at the power of federal agencies, including one on Thursday involving in-house Securities and Exchange Commission adjudications. The ruling was 6-3, with the conservative justices in the majority and liberal justices dissenting.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m at the point where I’m meaningfully convinced that the US can’t be saved. I’ve thought for a while that we’re going to Balkanize at some point in the next decade or so, and maybe it’s for the best for everyone (including the world). We could have had something nice, but we just really wanted to make sure that we had a handful of the richest most powerful people in human history because ???