So long to Steve Spurrier: A legend, an innovator and a quitter. CBS Sports national college football writer Jon Solomon sings Steve Spurrier's praises but notes, despite all his successes, Spurrier is still going out by leaving a team in the middle of its season.
The confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, is set for next week, and a sundry list of big issues is bound to be brought up. One involves an arcane legal doctrine known as Chevron deference, which many say will be crucial to the Trump administrationâs plans to tame the regulatory state.
Most of the regulations from the Obama administration working their way through the courts raise an issue concerning Chevron deference. The Supreme Court has before it a case, Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, raising the question whether Chevron deference trumps the rule of lenity in criminal cases. Auer deference has also come under attack in recent years. As with Chevron, in some circumstances the Court has declined to apply Auer deference altogether. Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 132 S.Ct. 2156 (2012). In other cases, individual Justices have argued that it is time to reconsider Auer deference.