Neil Gorsuch Is Channeling the Ghost of Scalia – BloombergQuint

Logical consistency often clashes with judicial precedent, and Gorsuch has long made his disrespect for precedent clear. He has argued for dismantling the administrative state, which has evolved into a kind of fourth branch of government that was not contemplated by the Constitution’s framers. Even Scalia, who was a teacher of administrative law before becoming a judge, never went that far. He famously defended one of the bulwarks of administrative law, the principle that judges should not intercede when government agencies interpret ambiguous statutes reasonably. Gorsuch wants to overturn that principle, notwithstanding that it is embodied in a well-established 1984 precedent, Chevron v. NRDC.

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