> The doctrine also creates perverse incentives for the other two branches. For example, by giving deference to agencies in ambiguous cases, it gave executive branch regulators incentive to hunt for ambiguities in order to expand their own power. This led to decades of executive overreach, as administrations used convoluted readings of statutes to pursue agendas Congress never imagined.
Reaction I: Does Reason magazine consider a corporation to be a citizen?
Reaction II: Do they envision Congress feeling any inclination to write less-ambiguous laws, to preserve their own power?*
Reaction III: With the size of the Federal law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...), and the massive overhead of deciding even trivial matters via the Federal Courts - just how many hundred hours per week is Reason thinking that the average Federal Judge should be working, to keep up?
*Yes, part of me says "The only power that Congress cares about is their ability to extract political donations. And so long as the last donation check has clear the bank before the first legal challenge to the Incomprehensible Blather Act of 2024 is heard by a judge..."