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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Opinionpalooza: This SCOTUS Decision Is Actually Even More Devastating Than We First Thought

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Administrative law may not sound sexy. And maybe that’s because it truly isn’t sexy. But it is at the very center of the biggest decisions this past Supreme Court term, and also widely misunderstood. In this week’s show, we asked Georgetown Law School’s Professor Lisa Heinzerling to come back to help hack through the thorny thicket of administrative law so we can more fully understand the ramifications of a clutch of cases handed down this term that – taken together – rearrange the whole project of modern government. The Supreme Court’s biggest power grab for a generation isn’t just about bestowing new and huge powers upon itself, it’s also about shifting power from agencies established in the public interest to corporations, industry and billionaires. 


This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. We kicked things off this year by explaining How Originalism Ate the Law. The best way to support our work is by joining Slate Plus. (If you are already a member, consider a donation or merch!)


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There are thousands of decisions in the lower courts that are relied on Chevron.

0:10.0

What happens to them?

0:12.0

One way of on what happens to them.

0:18.0

One way of putting what the court is doing is it's just serving as the vehicle

0:24.8

to deliver those benefits to the billionaires, right? Could be any of the branches of this government.

0:27.0

Right now it's the Supreme Court.

0:28.8

Hi and welcome back to Amicus this is Slate's podcast about the courts and the

0:37.4

law and the Supreme Court I am Dahlia Lythwick and these are the things I cover

0:42.1

at Slate.

0:44.0

As the dust of the Supreme Court's end of term, kind of whirlwind settles, we could probably

0:50.5

do a whole show or even a whole season about any one of the really big cases that came

0:55.6

down in the blur of the last weeks of June.

0:59.2

And we're going to be covering their ramifications for months, if not years to come.

1:03.2

But this week we wanted to circle back to a series of cases that we covered individually,

1:10.8

and these cases taken together are going to represent a kind of soup to nuts overhaul of how industry and commerce are regulated and therefore they're going to represent a soup to nuts of how safe your food, your drugs, your air travel,

1:25.9

your water, your saving and investments, your car really is.

1:31.4

The biggest and highest profile of this clutch of cases was of course the landscape altering

1:37.4

loper bright, the blockbuster that came down in the final days of the term overturning Chevron, which is a 1984 administrative

1:46.6

law decision that has really shaped how American life itself and governance has gotten done for the past 40 years.

1:54.9

But a part of this mix of cases includes Jarkassee and Garland versus Cargill and of course

2:02.1

Corner Post and those case names probably don't

2:05.2

evoke much for you right now but trust me by the end of this episode we hope

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