In the last month, the Wall Street Journal published two opinion pieces by Professor Stanley Langbein and included his December 14 op-ed in their monthly must-read editorial roundup, 10 Letters to Read: December's Most Notable Letters to the Editor.
In "Chevron and the Murky Politics of Deference," the professor of administrative law, federal income taxation, international tax, banking law, and commercial law wrote in response to the WSJ December 8 opinion piece "The Supreme Court's Chance to Rein In the Regulatory State."
Langbein wrote that "the newfound hostility of conservative jurists to Chevron may be seen not as a break from the 1980s, but a continuation of solicitude by conservative jurists for Republican political authority."
His second piece, "As Norms Crumble, Watch the Federal Reserve," published on January 7, was in response to the Journal's January 3 article "The Warren-Biden Bank Heist."
In Langbein's piece, he writes that "the Biden administration's three proposed Fed appointees would, together with the previously nominated vice chairman, constitute a majority of the Federal Reserve Board. This would give this progressive bloc greater power than at first appears over the conduct of U.S. monetary policy."
