Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proclaimed this week that his biggest accomplishment was making it harder for agencies to promulgate rules.
The Kentucky Republican was referring to the court’s decision to strike the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which required judges to defer to agency administrators’ interpretation of amorphous laws when writing rules about public health, the environment and other matters.
“This court has completely reversed that,” McConnell said Tuesday during a Bowling Green, Kentucky, Chamber of Commerce event. “I would say that’s far and away the most important, most consequential thing I’ve done during my time as leader.”
McConnell, who is stepping down from his Senate Republican leadership spot this year after nearly two decades, helped former President Donald Trump place three conservative justices on the high court. That, in turn, has shaken up high-profile policies on a number of issues, from abortion and climate change.
