Teaching Skidmore in the post-Loper Bright World, by Michael Asimow
I’ve never been a fan of Chevron. In particular, I didn’t like the game-playing around step one or all the confusion about step zero or step two. Mostly I disliked the rigidity of Chevron. Assuming textual ambiguity of the statute, deference to an agency’s interpretation is sometimes warranted, sometimes not. As a result, I prefer the Skidmore approach which grants weight to the […]