WASHINGTON — The U.S. response to the pandemic got politically messy. A Friday Supreme Court ruling could frustrate government responses to public health emergencies even further.
The Supreme Court struck down a long-standing legal doctrine that directed judges to defer to reasonable federal agency interpretations of ambiguous or technically challenging aspects of the law. The loss of the so-called Chevron doctrine calls into question every federal agency’s interpretation of a statute, so the ruling affects the regulations of all federal agencies.
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