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November 25, 2024, Opinion: "The incoming Trump administration is about to run into a serious obstacle. Ironically, the obstacle comes not from the left but from conservatives on the Supreme Court, who recently adopted a more aggressive, and more skeptical, approach to new initiatives from the executive branch. … Clio, the goddess of history, has a sense of humor, and she’s in a laughing mood. Here’s the background. For nearly four decades, American presidents benefited from the “Chevron doctrine,” which originated in a massively influential 1984 Supreme Court decision. In Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the court announced this rule: If the language in a federal law is ambiguous, judges must defer to its interpretation by the relevant administrative agency as long as that interpretation is not unreasonable."