How does this effect the government and their ability to create new policies? And does this ruling carry any potential for irreparable damages?
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Under Chevron, a Court had to accept a Regulatory Agency’s interpretation of a statute if it was reasonable. Overturning Chevron means that courts may now apply their own interpretation of statute regardless of what a Regulatory Agency thinks.
In most cases, this will matter very little. Most Judges are unlikely to want to go to the trouble of deeply examining a statute to decide whether or not to accept an official interpretation.
But on some contentious issues, it will likely result in activist judges throwing out regulations and regulatory interpretation *because the judge disagrees with it politically* regardless of the intent of Congress.
That can then lead to activist judges on opposing sides of said issues making dueling rulings that while usually only applicable within their district, might extend over the entire country. Which is bad because then a regulatory agent is caught in the catch-22 of no matter what they choose to do they’ll be violating a court order. This is bad for consistent rule of law.
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