This is a stupider result than just overturning it in its entirety, and the only lens to read it through is Roberts desperately not wanting a shitload of Republican induced chaos right before the election.
One tiny Chevron saving grace: "today's decision does not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron framework. The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful--including the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself--are still subject to statutory stare decisis"
I would understand saying that decisions that relied on chevron remained in place barring more litigation, but saying specifically that they retain precedential value even as the decision undergirding them was overturned is absurd.
it's basically how people are describing it elsewhere: a judicial power grab
"with this ruling, we get to decide what regulations count, and as a starting point, we'll say all established decisions stand. Come back later and maybe we'll change our minds."
Not saying it will be *good* but as a practical matter it is slow and costly to do that through the courts and faster and cheaper to prop them back up with new wording, and that's before we start talking about Congressional remedies. They are not coming to this fight better armed
And under this ruling they’d be fine to do so. How in the world would they treat a precedent based on chevron, itself no longer precedent, as precedent?
