Good riddance to Chevron deference

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.