The Atlantic

This opinion can’t be squared with the language of the statute—or with common sense.

The Supreme Court’s January 6 Decision Is Utterly Baffling

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Group says decision will cement capture of regulators by industry. A consumer advocacy group says a recent Supreme Court ruling will make it easier for regulated industries to capture the agencies responsible for policing them.

Supreme Court Ruling Puts Consumers at Risk

Business Insider

The Supreme Court is poised to curtail the federal government's power to regulate the environment, including President Joe Biden's climate policies.

The Supreme Court is poised to unleash a weapon against Biden's climate policies

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NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a civil rights claim brought by a Texas woman who served on a small-town council and was arrested following her criticisms of a senior official. The ruling on an 8-1 vote gives Sylvia Gonzalez another chance to bring a retaliation claim,...

Supreme Court rules for ex-council member in Texas arrested after criticizing city official

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court's ruling in Republican former President Donald Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss is expected on Monday, the final day of its current term.

Trump's immunity ruling due Monday as US Supreme Court announces end of term

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that citizens do not have a right to have their non-citizen spouses allowed into the country. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a 6-3 majority that “a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country” after a US citizen was unable to secure an immigrant visa for her Salvadoran husband.

US Supreme Court finds citizens lack right to have non-citizen spouses allowed into country

Prosecutors overstepped in charging January 6 rioters with obstruction for trying to prevent certification of the 2020 presidential election, the US Supreme Court said Friday, throwing hundreds of cases into doubt. The matter was brought to the court through an appeal by former police officer Joseph Fischer, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who entered the Capitol in Washington with hundreds of others on January 6, 2021.

US Supreme Court rules in favor of January 6 rioters

POLITICO

The Supreme Court's immunity ruling this week makes the hypothetical scenario raised during oral arguments — in which a president can't be prosecuted for murder —  well, possible.

The terrifying SEAL Team 6 scenario lurking in the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal law, providing that anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” commits a very serious federal crime, does not actually apply to everyone who obstructs, influences, or impedes an official proceeding. Worse, the...

Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists

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The 6-3 decision "permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public," Sotomayor said in her dissent.

Justice Sotomayor Blasts 'Unconscionable' Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Homeless Rights

The Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in the presidential immunity case, Trump v. United States, arising out of the Jan. 6 criminal prosecution brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against former President Trump. The 6-3 decision split the justices along traditional ideological lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority, two concurring opinions, and two dissenting opinions.

The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision

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Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it is sending a whopping nine cases back to the lower courts after its ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the first sign of the chaos from overturning the Chevron deference.The court ruled Friday to upend Chevron, a 40-year-old doctrine that requires judges to defer to a federal agency when determining the meaning of any ambiguous laws that agency should try to enforce. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that, instead, “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as...

Supreme Court Sets Up Legal War to Weaken the Government

The US Supreme Court blocked a federal policy aimed at curbing air pollution that spreads from one state to another. The Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor” plan, announced last year, requires “upwind” states to reduce air pollution that affects “downwind” states. Last year,...

US Supreme Court’s ‘Good Neighbor’ ruling deals a blow to Environmental Protection Agency powers

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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a precedent Friday that had for decades limited judicial power to strike executive branch regulations, in a decision immediately criticized for potentially undermining decisions by scientists and agency experts. The 6-3 and 6-2 decisions in two cases brought by fishing operators in New Jersey and Rhode Island challenged a […]
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U.S. Supreme Court flips precedent that empowered federal agencies

Ideally, the US Supreme Court is meant to be above politics, but its latest term will be remembered for crucial rulings with an outsize impact on the 2024 presidential election. "The Supreme Court was designed to be unpopular; to take stands that are politically unpopular but constitutionally correct," Turley said.

2024 US election loomed over Supreme Court term

The American Farm Bureau says it’s now up to Congress to write clearer laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic Friday ruling overturning legal precedent favoring federal bureaucrats over judges. AFB Deputy General Counsel Travis Cushman says the ruling upending the High Court’s 40-year-old Chevron precedent...

AFB Says Congress Must Write Clearer Laws After SCOTUS Chevron Ruling

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she plans on impeaching the six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court for their ruling in Donald Trump 's presidential immunity case.

AOC threatens to impeach all six conservative Supreme Court Justices

The mild-mannered liberal justice slammed the majority for "grasp[ing] for power."

Justice Kagan Issues Blistering Dissent On Conservative Supreme Court 'Hubris'

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Supreme Court Deals New Blow to Agency Power, Kills 40-Year-Old Rule

A new U.S. Supreme Court washes away a 40-year-old rule that gave federal agencies broad power to fill in the blanks when federal laws are ambiguous....

Supreme Court Deals New Blow to Agency Power, Kills 40-Year-Old Rule

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