While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial branch interprets statutes. Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial ...

In 2015, Justice Elena Kagan gave the late Justice Antonin Scalia credit for ushering in a new method of statutory interpretation that emphasized the central importance of a statute's text. Indeed, it ...

In the 1984 Chevron case, the Supreme Court held that where a statute was ambiguous, courts must follow the statutory interpretation of the agency administering the statute, so long as the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that only the president and attorney general can interpret the law. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: Trump's Feb. 18, ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down a 40-year-old precedent known as the ‘Chevron doctrine’ that empowered agencies to interpret ambiguous laws. The decision could lead to future challenges to ...

Chevron deference required judges to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes as long as they were reasonable. This doctrine often allowed agencies to interpret their statutes creatively ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that only the president and attorney general can interpret the law. A Trump official just announced that Trump has signed an executive ...