Courts Take Charge: Implications of SCOTUS Dismantling Chevron Deference

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned two staples of the regulatory system. the so-called Chevron deference, which calls upon the courts to defer to the expertise of specialized federal agencies and the use of administrative law judge opinions (Jarkesy decision.) Junking the Chevron deference would affect the work of a large swath of the federal regulatory bureaucracy. (We wrote about this case and its implications for OilPrice readers several months ago.) The court found that the considerable subject matter expertise of federal agencies would no longer…