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“I had hoped they would engage constructively with me during the legislative process. I was not surprised when they did not. I defer to the DOJ on any lawsuits,” Berman said in a statement.

Hed’ always been quiet – and quick to defer to others around him.

And in this silence, as Judge Guirola explained, courts must defer to the states, which hold primary authority under the Constitution to prescribe election procedures.

He also argued that the justices should defer to the Oklahoma court's ruling upholding Glossip's conviction based on the state's procedural bar limiting post-conviction legal efforts.

NRDC, a 1984 case that held that when Congress says federal agencies should enforce regulations, judges should defer to those expert agencies’ interpretations.