What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
The Supreme Court weakened regulators and created uncertainty, inviting a “tsunami of lawsuits”
THE QUESTION confronted by the Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo—whether the Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976 implies that herring fishers in the Atlantic can be forced to pay the salaries of federal inspectors riding on their boats—might appear to be, well, small fry. Yet while the Supreme Court issued many consequential decisions this term, Loper Bright may turn out to be the most important of the lot.
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