In the Democrat Hive Mind, Chevron Deference Was the Essence of 'Democracy'

A friend told me Wednesday that he has been surprised by the ferocity of the reaction by the Democrat establishment in Washington, DC over the Supreme Court’s decision in the Loper Bright v. Raimondo case last Friday. The key feature of that decision was the recission of the Chevron deference, a judicial doctrine implemented in 1984.

As I’ve written here previously, the Chevron deference has played a crucial role in the exponential growth of the regulatory/administrative state in recent decades due to its instruction to federal judges to defer to agency interpretations of governing statutes when deciding cases. Because of this, the hyperbolic reaction to the Loper Bright decision by the Democrat party establishment did not surprise me even a little bit. It was in fact inevitable.