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On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 40 years of “Chevron deference” in a landmark ruling that experts say will cause a “legal earthquake.” The 6-3 conservative opinion upends a long tradition of relying on neutral expertise to interpret and execute laws and regulations. Broadly speaking, the ruling empowers judges and corporations at the expense of impartial experts and government officials. The decision also paves the way for additional pro-corporate decisions in the years ahead. Consequential as it may be, the court’s Chevron ruling was overshadowed only days later by its even more controversial ruling in Trump v. United States.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Adrienne Lawrence revisits the case that ended Chevron deference and warns Americans about the far-reaching impacts of the June 28 ruling.
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The following is an excerpt of the above video:
This power grab will blow up in the faces of those on the bench and those living their everyday lives. Labor laws affecting workplace harassment, extreme heat, work conditions, eligibility for overtime, paid pregnancy accommodations, these all are subject to being blocked now that the courts cannot defer to the Labor Department’s experts on how to implement these laws.
The efforts to slash emissions from gas-powered vehicles and boost EV sales is now in jeopardy given that the court’s ruling sidelines the EPA’s expertise.
I wonder what right-wing Wonderboy Elon Musk thinks about his conservative court’s ruling now that Tesla will likely take a hit.
Sick Americans will suffer, too. In-house lab-developed medical tests that doctors and patients rely on for diagnosing serious diseases may go unregulated now that the FDA experts have been sidelined.
From regulating tobacco safety to providing low-income food assistance to monitoring Boeing’s fraud, no issue regulated by a federal agency is safe now that Chevron is dead. So long as big businesses have a buck to make, they’ll fight these agencies with the goal of being allowed to operate unchecked.
