Supreme Court Faces Array of Challenges to Agency Power and Police Immunity

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second challenge to a foundational precedent on the power of executive agencies, in a case almost identical to one it agreed to hear earlier this year. The court's decision to grant review in the new case was likely due to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's recusal from the earlier case. Both cases involve a federal law allowing the National Marine Fisheries Service to require fishing vessels to carry federal monitors, with the service interpreting the law to order the fishing industry to pay the monitors' salaries. The court's ruling could potentially overturn the Chevron precedent, which requires courts to defer to agencies' reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, and has been criticized by businesses subject to various regulations.