Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with today's argument before the Supreme Court in a case known as Chevron

deference, which is being heard after 40 years in which government agencies were given

deference to expert rulings on public health, the environment, and consumer protection issues, etc.

But now an ideological right-wing court appears to want to decide these critical matters themselves.

Joining us to discuss today's hearing is Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School,

and the founding director of the Law School's Environmental Law and Policy Program.

The co-author with Michael Gerard of Global Climate Change and U.S. law,

she also served as counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama White House and advised the Biden transition team.

Then we'll speak with James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Progressive

Reform. He previously worked as a legal intern for the Environmental Law Institute and

Ecologic Group, incorporated and has published a number of articles on human rights and

environmental law and policy appearing in the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs and the New England

Law Review. We'll discuss this power grab underway by bitter, angry Supreme Court justices

in the thrall of billionaire and corporate power, about to rule on whether

citizens have any say in how long they live and what kind of world they live in.

Then finally, with the Biden administration on the brink of being further bogged down in Middle East

Wars, we'll speak with Christopher Preble, the senior fellow and director of the reimagining

U.S. Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, he

served as co-director of the Atlantic Council's new American Engagement Initiative. He's the

author of The Power Problem, How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free.

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