U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will almost certainly be asked at his confirmation hearing next month about his criticism of the Chevron doctrine—the 1984 court-made rule giving deference to executive branch agencies in interpreting ambiguous statutes.

Businesses critical of the regulatory state are keenly interested in the issue. And on Monday the Supreme Court justices rehearsed some aspects of that debate in the unusual context of Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, an immigration case in which a California man faces deportation because he was convicted of “sexual abuse of a minor.”

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