As patriotic revelers across the country prepare to celebrate our nation’s independence with barbecues and bomb pops, we’ll shoot off fireworks at the Mattox household to celebrate a different kind of independence: our national liberation from 40 years of overzealous, unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy.

In a big win for fans of the Constitution, the Chevron doctrine experiment has finally met its demise. Four decades ago, the Supreme Court granted the “administrative state,” the collection of three- and four-letter government agencies and the hundreds of thousands of people they employ, expansive new power over our lives when it invented a new legal doctrine known as Chevron deference.