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  "description": "Four red states move to end judicial deference in 2025.",
  "path": "/missouri-joins-states-following-scotus-striking-down-chevron-deference/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-06-18T18:35:44.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "_SB 221_",
    "_was delivered_",
    "_enacted legislation_",
    "_in _Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo__",
    "All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit",
    "__Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.__",
    "_Maine recently considered_",
    "_the act did not pass_",
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  "textContent": "June 18, 2025 – Missouri is set to join a growing number of states banning judicial deference which allows courts to defer to administrative agencies when interpreting ambiguous laws. The states’ actions follow a similar decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.\n\nMissouri’s _SB 221_ has passed the state Senate and House and _was delivered_ to Governor **Mike Kehoe** (R) May 30. Since March 2025, Kentucky, Texas and Oklahoma have each _enacted legislation_ prohibiting judicial deference on the state level.\n\nThe decision to keep all statute interpretations within the scope of the judicial branch, rather than deferring to executive agencies, echoes the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling _in _Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo__, which overturned _Chevron_ doctrine.\n\n\n\n_****FROM SPEEDING BEAD SUMMIT****_\n _****Panel 1: How Are States Thinking About Reasonable Costs Now?****_\n_****Panel 2: Finding the State Versus Federal Balance in BEAD****_\n _****Panel 3: Reacting to the New BEAD NOFO Guidance****_\n _****Panel 4: Building, Maintaining and Adopting Digital Workforce Skills****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\n_Chevron_ , a judiciary precedent stemming from the 1984 Supreme Court case __Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.__, held that courts should defer to administrative agencies, like the Federal Communications Commission, when interpreting ambiguous statutes – particularly those agencies’ tasked with enforcing and executing relevant statutes.\n\n“Agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do,” Chief Justice **John Roberts** wrote in the majority opinion striking down _Chevron_ last summer.\n\nWhile GOP-controlled states have moved to eliminate the _Chevron_ doctrine, _Maine recently considered_ a bill that would codify judicial deference into state law, though _the act did not pass_.\n\nSince 2013, 14 states have ended or restricted state court deference to administrative agencies, according to _Ballotpedia_. That number will rise to 15 if Missouri's governor signs SB 221.",
  "title": "Missouri Joins States Following SCOTUS, Striking Down Chevron Deference",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:27:46.822Z"
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