The Supreme Court, Chevron and the case that could change Washington | New York Post
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The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up a case next term that could overturn a 40-year-old precedent — and reshape the acronym-heavy DC administrative state.
By opting to hear a case involving New Jersey fishermen, the justices will return to the high court’s 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the most commonly cited Supreme Court cases — and the bane of conservatives.
In the Chevron case, the court articulated a two-part “deference test” — known as the “Chevron test” — which found that federal agencies may interpret statutes without direct congressional approval, if legislators left the laws unclear and if the agency’s interpretation was deemed reasonable.
Four of the Court’s six conservative justices have already...
