 The Supreme Court, in a vote of 6-3, overturned the Chevron Deference Doctrine, a bureaucracy-empowering judicial doctrine that critics say led to the explosive growth of U.S. government in recent decades, which it has. The new decision will make it more difficult for unelected government officials to generate new regulations. For years, the doctrine forced judges to defer to the legal interpretations of federal agencies who enforced federal laws they deemed ambiguous.