American children are taught that the U.S. government has three separate but equal branches. However, this curriculum needs to be updated to reflect today’s realities. Now, executive branch agencies ...

One word holds the key to the major Trump-related court cases that you’ll be hearing a lot about in the next few months: deference. In the lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s border wall, and in ...

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The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the legal precedent known as the Chevron deference in a 6-3 decision, which will reshape the way that federal agencies interpret laws and craft rules that ...

Not long ago, I sat in on a meeting of the executive leadership team for a global technology company. At the beginning of the session, the CEO quickly flashed a couple of slides on the screen that ...

Article III of the Constitution gives the judiciary the power to decide "all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall ...

Auer deference, under which courts are required to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of their own ambiguous regulations, has long been one of the more problematic doctrines within ...

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Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence.

Only Ramos explicitly said no. Michael Blake: Yes, we need a fair, transparent process that values local input but stops individuals from blocking affordable housing. Urgent reform is key to solving ...