Justice Kagan: Conservative majority on Supreme Court 'grasps for power'

The Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent on Friday that said courts should largely defer to federal agencies when it comes to interpreting and enforcing ambiguous laws written by Congress. It ruled 6-3 in Relentless v. Department of Commerce and 6-2 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused), effectively seizing those agencies’ power for themselves.

This is the conservative court once again ruling itself king—above Congress, above the executive branch—in public life.