This is CBS. I am the world. I am John Batch. The Chevron case from the 20th century.

It's before us again, before the Supreme Court, in instances that were recommend resolution

of attention that I learn from an amicus brief that Professor Richard Epstein of the

Hoover Institution has provided for me. The choices are this. It might be over simplistic,

but I'm an amateur at this, so I do the best I can. Chevron is about the separation

of powers question. And in one instance, Congress overdelegates to administrative agencies,

the executive. In the other instance, those administrative agencies, the executive, overreach.

We go back and forth. What is an example of this? During the recent pandemic horror stories,

the attempt by the administration, the executive branch, to put a moratorium on rents, for

example, or to map into mandate vaccinations, for example, or the Clean Air Act to change

the way electricity is generated in the country. That is regarded as overreach. And the

Chevron story is at the center of it. Professor, a very good evening to beg pardon for mistating

any of this. You will help me understand. I've read the analysis brief. Good evening to you.

Okay. I usually think it's probably useful to take a bit of history before you got the

Chevron. It was an 1984 decision. And the seeds of this problem start with the basically

at the New Deal. Because the New Deal was the first time in which we have the creation

of large numbers of alphabet agencies, each of which have enormous powers. And so we have

the SEC on the one hand. And so we have the Federal Trade Commission and so forth. And we have

the Department of Labor. And so the first case on Chevron is a case called Skidmore, which was

decided in 1944. And what they were trying to do is to figure out how you apply the overtime

rules for time and a half to people who had very hard jobs. The general rule in administrative

law and Chevron is an illustration of this as well. This is the conscientious administrative

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