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Holy shit! Man, what a tumultuous week to follow the Supreme Court.

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founding

I don’t see any obvious connection between Chevron and GLOMAR. Are you saying asserting GLOMAR would trigger judicial review ?

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My sense is that the ability of federal agencies to enact their own policies that lack explicit statutory authority has been weakened. There has never been statutory authority for GLOMAR, I think it fit into a category of agency interpretation

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Jun 29·edited Jun 29

Well I think they can enact same policies, and any policy, but they are no longer given deference by courts, so there is greater potential for judicial overrule when a legal case is brought.

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Fair point

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founding

You’ve been GLOMAR’d? So, sooner the better. Well worded challenge citing SCOTUS bright line ruling that if Congress wanted agency to intentionally suppress any knowledge of existence of a record, they would have written it into law. Policy ain’t law. If you have any current court cases with GLOMAR responses at issue… all the better. Kick their asses, Ryan.

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