Trump’s Push to Deregulate Faces Challenges in Post-Chevron Era

Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office to a newly transformed administrative state, as he tests executive branch powers to bulldoze federal regulations and remake agencies in his second term.

But changes to the administrative state, stemming from landmark Supreme Court rulings, including one overturning the longstanding Chevron deference doctrine, may subject his regulatory actions to legal challenges on new grounds, lobbyists and lawyers said.

“This will be the first presidential administration since the overturning of Chevron deference, and the new administration has to figure out does this hamper them as they start plotting out their first 100-day agenda,” ...