| In case you missed Emily’s email on Friday, I wanted to follow up with you about a recent victory at the Supreme Court. It’s official: A small, family-owned fishing business from New Jersey scored a significant victory against the federal government in the Supreme Court case of Loper Bright v. Raimondo. The Supreme Court decision also overrules Chevron deference – and, in doing so, delivers a critical win for the constitutional checks and balances that our nation’s Founders envisioned. The fishermen were represented by Cause of Action Institute, of which I’m Executive Director, in addition to being Chief Policy Counsel of Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Here’s Cause of Action Institute on the decision: The fishermen in the Loper Bright case face an unlawful requirement imposed on them by an executive branch agency that could force them to surrender 20 percent of their earnings to pay at-sea monitors. Because that fee resulted from unlawful overreach and threatened their ability to make a living, the fishermen decided to challenge the requirement in court four years ago. After a split decision in the D.C. Circuit, the Supreme Court decided to review the Chevron doctrine, which is the legal theory the government cited to justify its controversial monitoring rule. For 40 years, Chevron has required federal courts to abdicate their constitutional role to interpret the law by deferring to agency interpretations of statutes whenever those same agencies deem the law “silent” or “ambiguous.” In practice, such deference permitted agencies to engage in egregious overreach, often at the expense of ordinary citizens. | 
