The Major Questions Doctrine

Harold Crant: The major question doctrine says look if we're not sure that Congress gave the agency this authority and the agency's action would chart a whole new path in terms of social and economic policy we should read the delegation narrowly. He says there was an interesting argument under the major questions doctrine during the discussion about whether it is less risky for Congress to give a great deal of power to administrative agencies as opposed to in regulating. Hal: We'll have to keep guessing about what happens until perhaps as late as June when they come down with their final decisions of the term thanks so much Harold.