SCOTUS decisions weaken federal agencies. How far will those impacts reach?

A number of decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court last term will have a major impact on how the federal government operates and significantly weakened the authority of federal agencies to regulate, like the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Labor.

The court overturned a 40-year precedent known as the Chevron Deference, which deferred to experts and scientists at agencies to interpret ambiguous laws, as long as those interpretations were reasonable. But now, with the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the conservative majority overturned that deference, reducing the power of government agencies and allowing courts to determine how laws and regulations should be applied.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts and the law for Slate, about the far-reaching effects of this ruling.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.