In June, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote an opinion that overhauled how a large segment of the federal government operates. The case, Loper Bright Industries v. Raimondo, was one of the more quietly momentous decisions of a historic summer session, overturning the so-called Chevron deference precedent and effectively restraining regulators from interpreting the laws and regulations they are tasked with enforcing. Last week, one of the first major lower-court decisions to come out of Roberts’s ruling dropped, clearing the way for people in the U.S. to gamble on elections for the first time in nearly a century.
The case pitted a New York online betting market against a federal regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
