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
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