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  • For those who don't understand what Chevron Deference is, and why SCOTUS ended it, here's the long and short of it:

    06/30/2024 5:03:35 PM PDT · by george76 · 46 replies
    X twitter ^ | · Jun 30, 2024 | Spike Cohen
    A family fishing company, Loper Bright Enterprises, was being driven out of business, because they couldn't afford the $700 per day they were being charged by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor their company. The thing is, federal law doesn't authorize NMFS to charge businesses for this. They just decided to start doing it in 2013. Why did they think they could away with just charging people without any legal authorization? Because in 1984, in the Chevron decision, the Supreme Court decided that regulatory agencies were the "experts" in their field, and the courts should just defer to their...