The Supreme Court Takes On the Administrative State
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:15.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:20.0 | this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:24.1 | The Supreme Court issues two big rulings reining in the administrative state, including one |
| 0:29.4 | that abolishes a judicial doctrine known as Chevron deference. |
| 0:33.4 | Plus a unanimous ruling by the justices puts on hold |
| 0:36.3 | at least for now Texas and Florida laws regulating |
| 0:39.6 | social media websites. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:44.8 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassal and Alicia Finley. |
| 0:51.0 | As we round out this year's decisions in a jam-packed Supreme Court term, let's take up three cases |
| 0:57.1 | we haven't had a chance to talk about yet, starting with Loper Bright Enterprises. This is a decision late last week and here is the holding in the |
| 1:06.2 | syllabus from the Supreme Court. The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise |
| 1:11.2 | their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has |
| 1:14.9 | acted within its statutory authority and courts may not defer to an agency |
| 1:19.8 | interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous. |
| 1:24.4 | Chevron is overruled. |
| 1:26.8 | Kim, maybe the place to start is, can you give us a reminder of what Chevron deference |
| 1:30.8 | is or maybe rather what it was? and how big of a deal it is that |
| 1:35.5 | Chevron deference has now fallen. Hooray we love that past tense. So Chevron is |
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