by Joseph Weber
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power.
The 6-3 decision for the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on the so-called 40-year-old Chevron decision upends the agencies’ authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly, according to CBS News.
The court split along conservative-liberal ideological lines in the dispute, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority, the news outlet also reports.
The crux of the Chevron decision states federal agencies should be allowed to fill in the details when laws aren’t crystal clear.
Court watcher Ellena Erskine from SCOTUSBlog wrote, “Chevron is overruled,” noting; “The vote is 6-3 (although 6-2 in Loper-Bright because Jackson is recused). Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson as it applies to Relentless, from which she is not recused.”
Read the full opinion here.
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Joseph Weber is a reporter at Just the News.
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