'Big blow to big government': Major SCOTUS decision strips power of 'faceless leviathan' of federal agencies

Experts say a sweeping Supreme Court decision will force Congress and the next president to work more closely together and stop relying on the 'faceless leviathan' of federal agencies.

Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the fishermen in a 6-3 decision last month, and, in doing so, overruled what is known as the Chevron doctrine — a legal theory established in the 1980s that says if a federal regulation is challenged, the courts should defer to the agency’s interpretation of whether Congress had granted it authority to issue the rule, as long as the agency's interpretation is reasonable and Congress had not addressed the question directly.

Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the majority, warning that eliminating Chevron could give judges without expertise authority in legal disputes regarding regulation of food, medicine, the environment, etc.