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Neil Gorsuch Photographer: Alex Wong/Pool via BloombergNow Trump?s agencies may need the same leeway to undo them. Antonin Scalia started out a vigorous champion of the Chevron doctrine. Appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch has been a vigorous critic of the so-called "Chevron doctrine" that gives federal agencies latitude when interpreting ambiguous laws. That could come back to constrain Trump?s regulatory moves as federal courts consider the inevitable legal challenges to his efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations. "Gorsuch, a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, has called the Chevron doctrine a "Goliath of modern administrative law," and argued it may be time to face "the behemoth.