1980s and that case, the supreme court instructed federal courts to defer an agency s interpretation of the law if the law is quote ambiguous, unquote. some of your academic writings express skepticism about the chevron doctrine and concern that it allows an ad men straegs to impose its policy preference by avoiding the political process. i can understand why this is appealing to an administration. i also think it s a threat to the separation of powers because it transfers power fro the congress and just dish area to the executive branch. that s why i ve reversed the chevron doctrine. many members of this committee have co-sponsored this ledges london attacks. as someone who has written extensively about the separation of powers, can you tell us why the separation of powers are so important and how it how it
helps to protect individual freedom. spiration of powers protects individual lebt because it responds to the concern the framers had that senator klobuchar yesterday that th
1980s and that case, the supreme court instructed federal courts to defer an agency s interpretation of the law if the law is quote ambiguous, unquote. some of your academic writings express skepticism about the chevron doctrine and concern that it allows an ad men straegs to impose its policy preference by avoiding the political process. i can understand why this is appealing to an administration. i also think it s a threat to the separation of powers because it transfers power fro the congress and just dish area to the executive branch. that s why i ve reversed the chevron doctrine. many members of this committee have co-sponsored this ledges london attacks. as someone who has written extensively about the separation of powers, can you tell us why the separation of powers are so important and how it how it
Liberty. it s hard to pass a law as you know in the congress. and then even if it does get passed, it affects your liberty. a separate body has to decide, usually u.s. attorney s office to enforce the law. that s a separate decision. that helps protect your liberty. even if that happens, you go to a court and say i didn t advise that law or the law is unconstitutional or they re interpreting that law in a way not consistent with what the law said the court independently decides that. it s not the members of congress or the executives deciding that. that s how the constitution separation of powers tilts towards liberty in all its respects. now. as to your specific question, senator, one of the things i ve seen in my experience in the executive branch and in the judicial branch is a natural tendency, but it s a natural tendency that judges need to be aware of and then respond to