Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which has required courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws. In response, Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:
An extreme right-wing majority just empowered MAGA judges across the country to stop any effort by public agencies to protect Americans from workplace abuses, unmitigated pollution, and unsafe food and medicine. This court—beholden to self-interested billionaires and corporations—has decided that it, not Congress or the president, gets to make federal policy. The American people have lost as the wealthy will get to maximize their profits. It’s time for Congress to push back and restore reason to the court by passing a law to reverse this decision and to put in place 18-year term limits for justices who have run amok.
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