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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

North Dakota Monitor

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, has overturned the Chevron deference, stripping power from federal agencies to interpret and enforce regulations. Under the long-standing precedent, courts are required to determine whether an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law is reasonable. This has given agencies room to advance regulatory priorities.

Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference, dealing blow to federal healthcare agencies

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

HuffPost

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

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

New Jersey State

NJ Spotlight

Political analyst says Bashaw will have to walk a fine line when it comes to Trump. After what ended up being a fairly easy primary for the two major party candidates for U.S. Senate, the stage is now set for what promises to be a more tumultuous fall campaign between Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim and hotelier and developer Curtis Bashaw, not your standard New Jersey Republican.

Kim and Bashaw prepare for November showdown

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

WashingtonExaminer

Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor lamented the Supreme Court decision she accused of “dismantling” the administrative state Thursday, a possible sign of what’s to come as rulings threaten to claw back more agency powers from the executive branch. Sotomayor, who stands with only two other ideologically similar jurists on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority high […]

Sonia Sotomayor foreshadows Supreme Court ‘dismantling’ administrative state

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

Some viral videos showing chaos down the Shore have re-ignited debates on policing and bail reform in New Jersey. While most of the state enjoyed a peaceful Memorial Day, a few videos emerged from the weekend showing large groups of people congregating in Shore towns, vastly outnumbering local police. Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged “three very serious incidents” but said the weekend was overall a success – a “huge Memorial Day,” in his words.

Viral videos: Juvenile crime highlighted at Senate hearing

The Supreme Court on Friday significantly weakened the power of federal agencies to approve regulations in a major decision that could have sweeping implications for the environment, public health and the workplace.

READ: Supreme Court ruling that significantly weakens the power of federal agencies to approve regulations

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Pennsylvania State

Morristown Minute

NEW JERSEY – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, along with the Division on Civil Rights (DCR), has co-led a multistate comment letter supporting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) proposed rule aimed at reducing criminal history-based barriers to public housing. This initiative is a collaborative effort with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania to improve access to safe and affordable housing.

HUD Rule Fights Housing Barriers for Ex-Offenders

Federal agencies, such as the FDA or EPA, have been crippled in enforcement and oversight after the Supreme Court ended more than 40 years of precedent. In a 6-3 decision on Friday, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in an extraordinarily consequential case that will have intense ramifications for federal agencies and Congress.

Supreme Court ends 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies oversight and cripples enforcement

WEKU

The decision overturned Chevron v. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 decision that was not particularly controversial when it was announced 40 years ago.

Supreme Court whacks the so-called 'administrative state'

California State

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

The Supreme Court ruled that defendants in financial-fraud cases have a right to a jury trial, rather than the SEC's in-house courts.

The Supreme Court just made it much harder to go after financial fraud

The U.S. Supreme Court justices return to the bench the second week of June to issue opinions in argued cases. The court has somewhere around 28 decisions left to release before it begins its summer recess. Here—in the order in which they were argued—are brief summaries of each of the...

Major U.S. Supreme Court decisions coming down the track

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US Supreme Court curbs power of federal agencies

The court also upholds ban on sleeping outdoors in homeless case. As this U.S. Supreme Court session nears its end, the justices have been delivering several...

US Supreme Court curbs power of federal agencies

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