Supreme Court sides with fishermen in landmark case deciding fate of the administrative state

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in the case of fishermen who challenged a decades-old legal doctrine that greatly empowers federal agencies.

The justices in January heard the arguments of two cases stemming from lawsuits brought by New Jersey fishermen and herring fishermen from Rhode Island challenging NOAA's rule they say threatened to ruin their livelihoods.  Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

The Court's decision reels in what’s known as the Chevron doctrine — a legal theory established in the 1980s that says if a federal regulation is challenged, the courts should defer to the agency’s interpretation of whether Congress granted them authority to issue the rule, as long as the agency's interpretation is reasonable and Congress did not address the question directly.