I’m not saying it’s controversial, Walter, I’m saying that on occasion it’s bs. Can you point to the Times op/ed piece which supports the Chevron deference in timely opposition to this? Or if there was way back when Obama was in power and the good guys would be there forever, is the timing significant? Mr. Neal seems to believe so. I think his skepticism is as warranted towards the Times as mine is towards the government, no matter who gets elected.

Bob

I am saying that the pieces a paper prints in its op-ed section do not necessarily reflect its own views, as is necessarily true in the many cases where a paper runs two pieces taking opposite positions.

Until now, I did not realize that this proposition was even controversial.

So you’re claiming that the TIMES randomly chooses op-ed pieces to publish? I suppose the articles complaining about the current occupant of the White House are just a coincidence,

Bob

Note that Philip Hamburger, who teaches law at NYU, contributed this one opinion piece to the New York Times op-ed page as an outsider. There is no reason to believe that the editors of the Times share his view of the Chevron doctrine or have some overarching strategic goal in running his piece.