Loper Bright: Supreme Court Ends Agency's "Because We Said So" Rule

with the Loper Bright decision, did the Supreme Court just take away the bureaucracy's because we said so stamp? Is that what happened there? Yeah, uh, yeah, in in in a very very uh, plain sense, yes. The Loper Bright said that in instances where a statute is ambiguous, or does not speak at all to a subject, excuse me, uh, Chevron, which Loper Bright overrule, it's the Chevron doctrine, the decision made by the Supreme Court in Chevron in the 1980s, said that in instances where a statute is silent or in instances where a statute is ambiguous, uh, a agency of the government can interpret the statute to mean whatever it thinks is reasonable and the courts are obliged to defer. Only in instances where a statute is unambiguous, must a agency follow the unambiguous law. What Loper Bright said was, no, there is no uh, constitutional foundation to have the powers of that were expressly delegated to the agencies, or excuse me, to the departments of the government, delegated away to agencies. Instead, where a statute is silent, or where it's ambiguous, it is the duty and province of the court to say what the law is ...