Birds fly outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024, as a judge issues an order on a pending appeal in Washington, U.S.A.
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Republican lawmakers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce praise supreme court decision Friday overturned the so-called “Chevron Doctrine,” which for four decades has led judges to defer to how federal agencies interpret laws when the legal language is unclear.
Republican lawmakers said the court’s 6-3 vote overturned a precedent they said unfairly strengthened the power of unelected government officials.
“The Constitution gives Congress the sole power to make laws,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
“After 40 years of Chevron’s compliance, the Supreme Court made it clear today that our system of government leaves no room for an unelected bureaucracy to choose this power for itself,” McConnell said. “The days of federal agencies filling legislative gaps are rightfully over.”
“Today’s decision is an important course correction that will help create a more predictable and stable regulatory environment,” Chamber chief executive Suzanne Clark said in a statement.
Clark added that the high court’s previous Chevron rule “allowed each new presidential administration to advance its political agenda through capricious regulations rather than provide consistent rules for companies to navigate, plan and invest in the future.”
Jeff Holmstead, an attorney with Bracewell LLP and a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Aviation, predicted in a statement that the ruling “will certainly change the way agencies develop regulations.” The way”.
Homestead said that in the four decades since the Chevron doctrine was in effect, agencies have sometimes “thought about regulatory plans and then tried to come up with reasonable” interpretations of existing law to justify them, and “hopefully the courts will Found this to be ‘allowed’.
“Going forward, they need to start with the statutory language and decide what Congress really wants them to do,” he said.
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton told Fox News the new decision in the case is called Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo It is “a huge victory for the American people, the Constitution, and the rule of law.”
“This is a huge blow to the administrative state in Washington, D.C., where no one elects bureaucrats to make these decisions,” Cotton said of the decision, which overturned the Supreme Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron. The decision in Long v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
People hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2024, in anticipation of a possible ruling by the court.
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Democrats, on the other hand, condemned the ruling, accusing the court’s conservative majority of solidifying its authority.
“Trump’s overturning of the Chevron ruling puts Trump once again siding with powerful special interests and big corporations against the middle class and American families,” said Senate Majority Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
“Their reckless overturning of 40 years of precedent and the imposition of their own radical views is shocking,” Schumer said.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler. New York Democrats said, “Today’s decision provides more evidence that the Supreme Court’s far-right majority will throw out any precedent they want in order to seek to increase the power of themselves and their MAGA allies across the country. “
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