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BREAKING: The Supreme Court overrules Chevron on a 6-3 ideological vote.
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Roberts has the opinion overruling the 1984 case setting forth a standard in which courts give federal agencies deference to their reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. The decision gives more power to the courts to strike down agency actions. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Thomas and Gorsuch write concurring opinions. Kagan writes the dissent for the liberal justices.
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Kagan is reading from her dissent. Here's a key part:
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Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."
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I acknowledge that "unearned hubris" is a poor phrasing. That is either repetitive or creating an unintentional double negative in effect. Hubris. It's hubris. I am listening and learning. And, in the absence of sleep, will at least drink more caffeine.
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Or as Kagan put it, hubris squared