Chevron's Demise Curbs Agency Power, Boosts Congress

As advertised, the Supreme Court’s overdue burial of the forty-year-old Chevron doctrine on June 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo should help check the ever-present bureaucratic imperative to expand federal agency power. But less frequently observed, it should also incentivize Congress to legislate more often with more specific policy directions. In other words, it should provoke Congress to do a better job of doing its job.