GOP plans major crackdown on 'nameless, faceless bureaucrats' after blockbuster Supreme Court ruling

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision that cut the legs out from federal agencies, GOP lawmakers are launching a new effort to snatch even more power from the "administrative state."

Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

In doing so, the high court overruled what is known as the Chevron doctrine, which is 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.

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the Supreme Court’s decision "a critical blow to the disastrous Chevron deference standard and represents an opportunity for Congress to retake legislative power from agencies and dismantle the administrative state."