2023-05-01 16:28:01
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether to throw out a decades-old decision that has been a frequent target of conservatives and, if struck down, would make it difficult to uphold government regulations.
The judges agreed to hear an appeal on a 1984 case known as Chevron. It involves the oil company Chevron and indicates that when the laws are not very clear, federal agencies should be allowed to fill in the details. That’s what the agencies do—on environmental regulations, workplace standards, consumer protection, and immigration law.
The court’s conservative majority has been holding back federal regulators beforehand, including in last June’s decision limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
But Chevron has been one of the most frequently cited cases in higher courts, and a decision that narrows its scope or strikes it down altogether might drastically limit the discretion of federal authorities to regulate American life in many ways.
At least four conservative members of the court — Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh — have challenged the doctrine.
Gorsuch, as an appeals court judge, noted that judicial decisions “allow executive bureaucracies to swallow up huge amounts of judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to fit with the Constitution.” of the editors’ design”.
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