Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative supermajority delivered corporate polluters, anti-abortion campaigners, and other right-wing interests a major victory Friday by overturning the so-called Chevron doctrine, a deeply engrained legal precedent whose demise could spell disaster for public health and the climate.The high court's 6-3 ruling along ideological lines in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v.
'By overturning the Chevron doctrine, the liberal justice wrote, the Supreme Court's majority demonstrated that it 'disdains restraint, and grasps for power.''This is the outcome of a multi-decade crusade by big business and right-wing extremists to gut federal agencies tasked with protecting Americans’ health and safety.
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