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Judicial Review of the Administrative State

The Court Should Overrule Chevron Deference

January 27, 2024

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that ask it to reconsider judicial deference to administrative agencies’ statutory interpretations. Writing for the Yale Journal on Regulation, Adam J. White explains why the court should abandon this Chevron deference standard to restore the consistent administration of congressional statutes.

 

 

As part of the expansion of the child tax credit proposed by House Republicans and Senate Democrats, families would be able to use either of the prior two years of income to determine eligibility. In a new working paper, Kevin Corinth, Angela Rachidi, Matt Weidinger, and Scott Winship explore the macroeconomic costs of this new work disincentive.

 

The Medicare trustees currently project that the programs’ Hospital Insurance trust fund will fall to zero in 2031, necessitating across-the-board cuts or a congressional bailout. However, in a new AEI Economic Perspectives report, James C. Capretta warns that experts and Congress are failing to recognize the growing financial problems facing Medicare’s second trust fund: Supplementary Medical Insurance.

 

Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while men’s political views have remained largely stable. Daniel A. Cox surveys years of polling data to explain this unprecedented political and cultural gender divide in Generation Z.

 

After the economy and inflation, the most important issue for voters right now is immigration. Ruy Teixeira explains how Democrats’ refusal to address this issue has seriously damaged their political prospects.

Government Project

What are the limits of government planning? Why do well-intentioned public policies so often fail? Legendary social scientist Edward Banfield, who taught and mentored many AEI scholars, spent his career plumbing the depths of these questions, as he laid the foundations of neoconservatism. Now AEI Press has republished his first book, Government Project, with a new foreword by Kevin R. Kosar. The book explores these issues via a case study of a prototype New Deal cooperative farm in southern Arizona. While the project seemed outwardly successful, delivering material prosperity to its participants, in its seventh year it collapsed amid mutual recrimination and animosity between the farmers. Banfield’s classic account of the failure of this utopian project has enduring relevance as a cautionary tale for public policy today.

 

 

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

We ought to appreciate our political traditions for what they are—imperfect, provisional, and, yes, largely practical and utilitarian in their details. When some of our fellow citizens suggest that these very institutions are shot through with incurable moral defects, our rebuttal must be practical: We must make use of and renew our constitutional traditions, and by doing so prove that they can still facilitate collective action that will hold this country together.

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