'Thumb on the scale': Consumer watchdog slams Dem push to codify law SCOTUS struck down

Alliance for Consumers is warning Senate lawmakers to end plans to codify a legal doctrine that the Supreme Court struck down earlier this year.

Known as the Chevron doctrine, the legal theory established in the 1980s says that if a federal regulation is challenged, the courts should defer to the agency’s interpretation of whether Congress had granted it authority to issue the rule, as long as the agency's interpretation is reasonable and Congress had not addressed the question directly. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Democrats in Congress have since attempted to pass legislation that would codify Chevron deference. Alliance for Consumers, a national consumer advocacy organization, is urging those lawmakers to not "[re-empower] bureaucrats to ban or wipe away even more products with near impunity and a thumb on the scale for the government against the little guy."