Abnegate:
to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce. [Dictionary.com]
Seen in ”Another Addition to the Chevron Anticanon: Judge Kavanaugh on the “Major Rules” Doctrine,” Asher Steinberg, The Narrowest Grounds:
To a certain cast of mind, the most heroic thing the Article III judiciary can do, at least in a post-Brown world, is to make law abnegating its lawmaking power. So I have to comment on last Monday’s dissent from Judge Kavanaugh in the D.C. Circuit’s net-neutrality case on his discovery of the “major rules” exception to Chevron.
Ya gotta like the humor.
