Fishers, who brought down four decades of Supreme Court precedent where judges were deferring to agency heads when laws were ambiguous, chided Democratic senators on Tuesday for trying to undermine the recent high court victory.
Jerry Leeman, CEO of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, which filed a brief supporting other anglers in this term’s landmark Supreme Court battle, criticized the latest attempt by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, to codify Chevron deference into law.
Ms. Warren’s move comes after the GOP majority on the high court overturned a 40-year-old precedent in a pair of disputes known as the Chevron case. The justices ruled that courts should no longer defer to agencies’ interpretations of federal law where Congress is ambiguous, a principle known as Chevron deference. The challenge was brought by fishers contesting a federal rule making them pay for a monitor to accompany their boats.
“So-called expert bureaucrats approved the Vineyard Wind turbines that are falling apart in Senator Warren’s home state, spreading debris from Nantucket to Cape Cod. Fishermen have always known that offshore wind will be a disaster for our oceans. But alphabet soup agencies used Chevron deference to silence us,” said Mr. Leeman. “Without Chevron, fishermen finally have a chance to protect their jobs, heritage, communities and the marine environment from regulators and developers who are industrializing the ocean.”...more
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