The Administrative Procedure Act empowers courts—not agencies—to decide a statute’s single best meaning.
"Chevron defies the command of the APA” because it “requires a court to ignore, not follow, ‘the reading the court would have reached’ had it exercised its independent judgment as required by the APA.”
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Cato occasionally publishes a good article lol
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Yep, occasionally it correct.
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Is it better for US that the courts get more and more powerful? Shouldn't it make them more powerful than the administration? It's like courts favouring courts!
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It's not a question of power. The question is which branch of government is responsible for interpreting laws or legal provisions
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Centralised vs. decentralized unelected experts. Lesser evil.
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It was only a matter of time. Is the court system starting to make a power grab? They can interpret laws the way they want?
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The courts are properly reclaiming power from administrative agencies.
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Is that what it is? Maybe I read the article wrong, I thought they were interpreting laws the way it suits them.
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In the US courts have the role of interpreting laws. The Chevron case granted that judicial authority to administrative agencies. This decision corrects that longstanding error, in my opinion.
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I realize they have a role in interpreting the law. Even when this error is corrected, what happens when the law is interpreted in a way that isnt right? Im sure it is only a matter of time before that happens. Or maybe I am just paranoid?
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Federal administrative agencies abused a power they never should have been given in 1984 by Supreme Court, majority opinion written by Stevens
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@Bell_curve nailed it. Only courts have the power to interpret law.
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omg, not this again lol
I listen to Law Talk podcast with Epstein and Yoo
I also took one semester of Constitutional Law in college
I consider myself an expert, an armchair legal scholar
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