Court’s Chevron Ruling Shouldn’t Be Over Read, Kavanaugh Says

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the Supreme Court’s decision last term, which undercut the power of federal agencies, shouldn’t be over read.

The court in June overturned Chevron, a 40-year-old precedent that directed lower courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation when a law is ambiguous. What the court did in the case, known as Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, “was a course correction consistent with the separation of powers to make sure that the executive branch is acting within the authorization granted to it by Congress,” Kavanaugh said.

“To be clear, don’t over read Loper Bright,” Kavanaugh ...