From SCOTUSblog:
Relentless and Loper Bright began as challenges to a federal rule that requires the fishing industry to pay for the cost of observers who monitor compliance with fishery management rules. But at the arguments on Jan. 17, the justices will consider a broader question: whether to overrule (or at the very least limit) their 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, in which the court held that when a federal statute is ambiguous, courts should defer to an agency’s interpretation of that law as long as it is reasonable. That doctrine, known as the Chevron doctrine, has been the target of criticism by (among others) some Supreme Court justices in recent years, but the Biden administration has told the justices that overruling Chevron would be “convulsive.”
But leaving statutory interpretation to Congress would detract legislators from their primary duties as partisan fund-raisers!
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