Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish · ¶40

The ordinary meaning of “relating to,” however, is not “so broad that it is meaningless.” Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn., 592 U. S. 80, 93 (2020) (Thomas, J., concurring). To be sure, in a literalist sense, “everything is related to everything else.” California Div. of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Constr., N. A., Inc., 519 U. S. 316, 335 (1997) (Scalia, J., concurring). But, generally in statutory interpretation, “it is the ordinary, not literalist, meaning that is the better one.” Rutledge, 592 U. S., at 93 (Thomas, J., concurring); see A. Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation 24 (1997) (“the good textualist is not a literalist”).

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