On this episode: Last month on January 17th, SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a cases that deals with the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) interpretation of a federal fishery law. The court’s ruling, one of the most anticipated in 2024, could affect future applications of Chevron deference.  

Chief policy editor Caitlin Styrsky joins the show to unpack Chevron Deference’s history, how the doctrine works, the arguments for and against keeping it around, and what its future might look like after SCOTUS’s likely decision later this year. 

An in-depth guide: https://ballotpedia.org/Chevron_deference_(doctrine) 

Our Learning Journey: https://ballotpedia.org/Journey:_Chevron_deference 

SCOTUS might release a related decision in June: https://news.ballotpedia.org/2024/01/30/scotus-looks-at-chevron-but-what-exactly-does-that-mean/ 

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