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“Courts do,” he added. “The Framers anticipated that courts would often confront statutory ambiguities and expected that courts would resolve them by exercising independent legal judgment. Chevron gravely erred in concluding that the inquiry is fundamentally different just because an administrative interpretation is in play.”

Roberts also took issue with “the view that interpretation of ambiguous statutory provisions amounts to policymaking suited for political actors rather than courts,” as a misconception of the judicial role.