what it likely means for six FedSoc goons to gut the Chevron standard for courts deferring to regulatory agencies' interpretations of their own regs
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"Here’s the bottom line: Without Chevron deference, it’ll be open season on each and every regulation, with underinformed courts playing pretend scientist, economist, and policymaker all at once. Securities fraud, banking secrecy, mercury pollution, asylum applications, health care funding, plus all manner of civil rights laws: They are ultravulnerable to judicial attack in Chevron’s absence. That’s why the medical establishment has lined up in support of Chevron, explaining that its demise would mark a “tremendous disruption” for patients and providers; just rinse and repeat for every other area of law to see the convulsive disruptions on the horizon.
“Judges should know what they don’t know,” Kagan protested on Wednesday, and leave these questions up to the people who do know. This Supreme Court, however, cannot conceive of the possibility that it is ill-equipped to decide every major policy question of the day. And this hubris is fueling a reckless race to snatch ever more power away from what remains of our democracy."
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