{"id":106183,"date":"2024-06-28T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-upends-long-standing-precedent-on-power-of-federal-regulators\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:00:57","slug":"supreme-court-upends-long-standing-precedent-on-power-of-federal-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-upends-long-standing-precedent-on-power-of-federal-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upends long-standing precedent on power of federal regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-28\/GETTYRF_4622_SCOTUSBldg%20%285%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Walter Bibikow\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Friday ruled to limit the power of federal regulatory agencies, upending a 40-year precedent widely known as the Chevron Doctrine that generally had courts show deference to agency experts in disputes over ambiguities in the law.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-3 opinion was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chevron is overruled,&#8221; Roberts wrote. &#8220;Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the [Administrative Procedure Act] requires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Careful attention to the judgment of the Executive Branch may help inform that inquiry. And when a particular statute delegates authority to an agency consistent with constitutional limits, courts must respect the delegation, while ensuring that the agency acts within it,&#8221; Roberts continued. &#8220;But courts need not and under the APA may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts clarified the court&#8217;s ruling was forward-looking and would not impact past cases that relied on the doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Elena Kagan, in her dissent, defended the rule as being the &#8220;backdrop against which Congress, courts, and agencies\u2014as well as regulated parties and the public\u2014all have operated for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been applied in thousands of judicial decisions,&#8221; Kagan wrote. &#8220;It has become part of the warp and woof of modern government, supporting regulatory efforts of all kinds\u2014to name a few, keeping air and water clean, food and drugs safe, and financial markets honest. And the rule is right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Bibikow\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Friday ruled to limit the power of federal regulatory agencies, upending a 40-year precedent widely known as the Chevron Doctrine that generally had courts show deference to agency experts in disputes over ambiguities in the law. The 6-3 opinion was authored<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-upends-long-standing-precedent-on-power-of-federal-regulators\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}