> Chevron deference is the reason the US works at all. A judicial doctrine concocted by conservatives in 1984 so that the Reagan administration could let an oi

> Chevron deference is the reason the US works at all. A judicial doctrine concocted by conservatives in 1984 so that the Reagan administration could let an oil company pollute more is “the reason the US works at all”? A more liberal Supreme Court might have sided with the environmentalists and upheld the decision below (written by none other than the notorious RBG-she hadn’t been elevated to the Supreme Court yet). It’s a good thing that didn’t happen, because then the US would have stopped working