of federal agencies may be in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and he's got some family history there.

His mom, a former chief of the EPA, railed against air and water quality regulations in the early 1980s and that

ardent defiance landed her in contempt of Congress leading to her resignation

months later. Her son built his legal career on a similar anti-regulatory streak voting against numerous

regulations aimed at protecting the environment, student debt forgiveness, and COVID-19 precautions.

Today the nation's highest court will hear a pair of cases testing the scope of federal

agencies regulatory power and at the center of those cases is a 1984 Supreme Court

decision that Gorsuch previously has said should be reversed.

We have CNN's Joan Biscupic joining us now with the details.

This is pretty interesting here, Joan. What can you tell us about these cases before the court?

Sure, and I'll just first tell you just about the unusual Gorsuch connection.

Yeah. The 1984 case actually arose from policy that Ann Gorsuch was implementing.

So it's just, and after she was essentially run out of town by the Reagan administration,

she wrote a book that said, are you tough enough?

That was the title.

But in it, she referred to the fact that her son

Neil now the justice was really upset by what happened to her she was he was just

15 at the time but here we are now with a major test of a decision that became a landmark through

EPA policy that Ann Gorsuch was part of but let me just tell you about this

1984 case it's called Chevron versus Natural Resources

Defense Counsel.

And what it says is that if there's an ambiguous statute

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