outstanding supreme court decisions. joining me now to talk about all of them as we wait for them to come down, cnn chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin. i want to start on a case that is so consequential. explain this for the power of the administrative state and the executive branch to delegate its power. congress passes laws. i think everybody knows that. but laws are generally phrased in fairly general terms. and we have administrative agencies that translate those laws into rules that individuals and companies must follow. the question in the west virginia case is how much deference, how much do we allow the administrative agencies to interpret the laws that congress gives them. there s a doctrine of law called the chevron deference where court has said if it s reasonable, we will allow administrative agencies to interpret congress s statutes. what conservatives have been fighting for in recent years is for the supreme court to say, no, we
that congress would have to delegate power to an agency on any decision of vast economic and political significance very specifically, very clearly in its language. otherwise it will be able to be challenged on a major questions doctrine ground, which this court made clear will uphold. we in congress are to set the following limits. i mean, that s pretty specific. folks at home might say that doesn t sound like a big deal. fine. multiple that by the thousands and thousands of agencies setting thousands and thousands of different rules on the ground for every single facet of our bureaucratic state. maybe that s the goal. neighbor idea is we just don t want congress doing this at all. we d rather these issues not be regulated by the federal government. that s the real takeaway here. unless we actually think