The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State

The book is backwards--not only does it read right to left, but the cover is upside down.

This book is about the Chevron ruling of the Supreme Court. Simply stated Chevron states that if Congress passes a bill that makes no sense then the Administrative agency to which it applies gets to decide all on its own.All too often Congress passes bills where definitions of things that Congress rules on are vague, missing, wrong, outdated etc. Thus rather than correcting the bill the Supreme Court in its wisdom in Chevron stated that the Agency in charge gets to decide. Needless to say this leads to chaos. But alas it is Washington.Worse yet is that all too many Bills are "written" by the invisible hand of lobbyists, never read by the members of Congress and all too often have these surprise bombs just waiting to explode. Worse yet when Agencies decide then it is some un-elected bureaucrat who gets to make up the laws!The author goes through the law, the Court ruling, the impact and the changes. The author suggests a remedy of having public comment. However in my opinion and in my experienced that is a totally rigged approach. It is merely a cover that allows the Agency to do whatever it wants. This is often the results of having lobbyists and interested parties skewing the public comments.Ultimately the real solution is if a law is ambiguous then send it back to Congress and get them to do it right. In the meantime the law is vacated.This book portrays one of the many weaknesses of Congress and the ability of the Executive branch to effectively make their own laws.