Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government."
Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say:
"Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"
So amazing to a gen Xer like me that the whole Supreme Court project from the right was premised on replacing activist judges with those who showed deference to the elected officials.
I think what it says is that judges can rely on experts if they want to. Which is entirely different, and likely to produce appeals to federal circuits with rulings that will be in complete disharmony and will clobber SCOTUS's docket.
Now we need a Rahimi-style case (quickly) in which SCOTUS is confronted by a truly outrageous situation that required a fed agency's regs to stop immediate massive death and destruction, requiring Roberts etc to backpedal AFAP.
Alas, climate change is too big for the bozos on this SCOTUS.
So what does it take to add one justice for each of the unrepresented districts in the country? We really need to expand the court and write into law that there cannot be more than a 2-party majority or risk the balance as we are seeing now.