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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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JANUARY 16, 2024

In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.

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Justice Breyer: A pragmatic moderate

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Idealogues have sought to reshape the court’s jurisprudence in their own ideological vision, whether liberal or conservative, often at the expense of stare decisis and typically voiced most vigorously in dissenting opinions. Think of Marshall and William Brennan in death-penalty cases. After that, he became a full-time academic.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

Justice Breyer: A pragmatic moderate

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