The sole issue at hand in a case that will come before the U.S. Supreme Court - Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo - in its next session beginning this October is whether the legal doctrine known as the Chevron Deference should be upheld. This longstanding doctrine originated from a 1984, 6-0 decision in a case styled Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.; thus, the name.
In the simplest terms, the Chevron Deference holds that the federal bureaucracies should be allowed to compile regulatory actions without interference from the courts. It’s more complex than that, obviously, but this is the basic principle at play. The practical and inevitable outcome from this ludicrous decision has been the exponential expansion of federal regulations and the bureaucracies that promulgate and enforce them on an almost geometric progression.
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