Chevron Shived!

I think Politico had a really good article explaining the implication of SCOTUS overruling the Chevron deference. (You can tell this ruling was expected by the swiftness with which Politico was available to publish its story within a mere hour or so of the SCOTUS decision.) I quote from it extensively below.

The Supreme Court on Friday killed off a judicial doctrine that has protected many federal regulations from legal challenges for decades — delivering a major victory for conservatives and business groups seeking to curb the power of the executive branch.

The 6-3 decision divided the court along ideological lines. Its fallout will make it harder for President Joe Biden or any future president to act on a vast array of policy areas, from wiping out student debt and expanding protections for pregnant workers to curbing climate pollution and regulating artificial intelligence.

Known as Chevron deference, the Reagan-era doctrine required judges to defer to agencies’ “reasonable” interpretations of “ambiguous” federal laws. Now, judges will be freer to impose their own readings of the law — giving them broad leeway to upend regulations on health care, the environment, financial regulations, technology and more.

The high court’s about-face comes after more than a decade of campaigning from conservatives — including some of the Republican-appointed justices themselves — looking to rein in the so-called administrative state. And it lands just two years after the justices used a ruling on a climate case to limit regulations that pose “major” implications for politics or the economy.

Chief Justice John Roberts was crystal clear in the majority opinion: “Chevron is overruled.”

“Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the [Administrative Procedure Act] requires,” Roberts continued. “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. But courts need not and under the APA may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.”

Chevron deference has become an “impediment” to judges deciding the law, Roberts added.

Chevron was a judicial invention that required judges to disregard their statutory duties,” he wrote. “And the only way to ‘ensure that the law will not merely change erratically, but will develop in a principled and intelligible fashion’ is for us to leave Chevron behind.”

But the court’s liberal wing warned that the majority’s latest decision will allow unelected judges to strike down rules based on their own policy preferences. Until now, a court had to let the agencies’ interpretations stand as long as they fell within the realm of reasonability, even if the judge didn’t think it was the best reading.

“A rule of judicial humility gives way to a rule of judicial hubris,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the dissenting liberal wing.

Look, f***tards, I can’t even be upset anymore. I was upset four years ago when RBG died, and I predicted back then that this sh*t-for-brains country had no idea what they were in for when they elected traitor trump. At the same time, dumbass Democrats capitulated on making SCOTUS a top priority. Democrats assumed the electorate would be smart enough, engaged enough, and enlightened enough to surely never elect traitor trump. How wrong Democrats have been at every turn, especially now that Biden seems determined to help traitor trump return to the White House with last night’s debate debacle. At this point, whatever. No one cares. Business as usual for his nation of morons. This is what a dying country looks like. How many f***ing times must I repeat myself before you guys believe me? How many f***ing times? Welcome to stupid America. The end is here. You’re probably just too m*****f***ing stupid to realize it. Welcome to stupid America. The end is here. You’re probably just too m*****f***ing stupid to realize it. Welcome to stupid America. The end is here. You’re probably just too m*****f***ing stupid to realize it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯