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by JumpCrisscross 721 days ago
> there was no debate on its principles at the time

The part that made Chevron consequential wasn’t recognised at the time.

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I dispute this. It seems to me that if Congress was vague, it knew it was ceding power to the agency to decide; and that the court in Chevron considered it normal that the fallout from poor decisions should land upon those seeking legislative or executive re-election.

I can see both good and bad outcomes from today's decision (though I think in the short term it will multiply litigative and executive brinksmanship without elevating legislative standards), but I really don't agree with the idea that the justices who originally decided it were just clueless about the implications.