Fresh off a blockbuster US Supreme Court decision that rolled back the power of federal agencies to regulate business, big-government foes are pressing an even bolder agenda.
As the court prepares to start its new term next month, conservatives are laying the groundwork to further gut governmental authority. More issues are steaming toward the court, offering new paths for undercutting the administrative state, no matter who wins the presidential election.
Four weeks after the court overturned a 40-year-old legal precedent that had been a regulatory bedrock, liberal Justice Elena Kagan said the conservative majority sees rulemaking as needing to be “reined in.” Kagan dissented three times at the end