Brick by Brick, Courts Build a Roadblock Against Biden’s Administrative State

Ruling against EPA sets precedent for a series of lawsuits against agency overreach

The Supreme Court building, surrounded by a temporary security fence, in Washington on June 22, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

News Analysis

As the Biden administration reels from a string of recent legal defeats, political analysts are hailing the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling, West Virginia v. EPA, as but one component of a new, broad-based approach that the courts are taking to halt a century-long effort by progressives to empower the administrative state and rule Americans by bureaucratic decree.