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I'm Caleb Brown. Courts regularly defer to federal agencies and interpreting statutes,

but courts also defer to agencies when the agencies

interpret their own regulations, and those interpretations regularly change

from one administration to the next. A new Supreme Court case challenges that deference.

Cato's Andrew Grossman comments on the case of Kaisor v. O'Rourke. Legal nerds are

familiar with Chevron deference, the idea that when a statute is relatively

less than clear that we should defer to the agency charged with applying that statute, writing

regulations about that statute, we should defer to their interpretations

of the statute for the purposes of creating regulation.

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