Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate change
Placeholder while article actions loadThe Supreme Court on Thursday sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to President Biden’s commitment to battle climate change. AdvertisementThe court was considering the powers granted by the Clean Air Act, which was written decades ago, before climate change was widely recognized as a worldwide crisis. The Supreme Court in 2016 stopped the Obama administration’s plan to drastically reduce power plants’ carbon output. For that reason, the administration and environmentalists were stunned when the Supreme Court took the case. Apple, Tesla and other major tech and retail firms investing in renewable energy, meanwhile, told the court that “stable, nationwide rules” are needed to avert climate disaster.
washingtonpost.comSupreme Court justices' past abortion views, in their own words and votes
More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.
cbsnews.comTerrified law clerks at the Supreme Court are lawyering up as the investigation into the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade fuels hostility: report
A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.
news.yahoo.comJackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice
The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era rule on water pollution
Conservatives on the Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era environmental rule that limited the ability of states to block projects that could pollute rivers and streams, a decision more notable because Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined liberals in calling it an abuse of the court’s emergency powers.
washingtonpost.comSupreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule, for now
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways. The high court's action does not interfere with the Biden administration's plan to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court tosses Wisconsin legislative voting maps
The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.
Supreme Court sides with defendant in Armed Career Criminal Act case
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who the justices found had been handed an overly harsh sentence based on lower courts' mistaken application of a law. The crux of the case turned on how many criminal "occasions" occurred one night in 1997 when William Dale Wooden and three others entered a single-building storage facility in Georgia, smashed through the drywall separating different storage areas within and stole...
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court considers whether Biden administration properly ditched Trump immigration rule
I’m questioning the ease with which a decision in your favor will make it for an incoming administration to avoid notice-and-comment review,” the chief justice said to Deputy Solicitor General Brian H. Fletcher, representing the Biden administration. AdvertisementFletcher told the court the incoming Biden administration thought the rule was wrong, as well as ineffective. The Biden administration acquiesced to the Illinois judge’s decision, and moved to dismiss the remaining cases around the country. Why can’t a new administration simply comply with an adverse lower court ruling if it thinks the rule is incorrect? “This case can be resolved on that straightforward basis alone.”Meanwhile, Fletcher said the Biden administration is at work on a new version of the immigration rule.
washingtonpost.comHigh court's Alabama ruling sparks alarm over voting rights
The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election has sparked fresh warnings that the court is eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.
What the Supreme Court justices have said about abortion and Roe v. Wade
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.
washingtonpost.comSupreme Court rules against inmate in death penalty case
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence. In an unsigned 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority on Friday reversed an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding and said that a state court had correctly rejected claims that Matthew Reeves had ineffective counsel at trial because they did not hire a neuropsychologist to present evidence he is intellectually disabled. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, said the majority’s decision continues a “troubling trend in which this Court strains to reverse summarily any grants of relief to those facing execution.”
news.yahoo.comThe Supreme Court's Newest Justices Produce Some Unexpected Results
WASHINGTON — The arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October seemed to create a 6-3 conservative juggernaut that would transform the Supreme Court. Instead, judging by the 39 signed decisions in argued cases so far this term, including two major rulings Thursday, the right side of the court is badly fractured and its liberal members are having a surprisingly good run. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times That picture may change, as the court has yet to issue the term’s
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary status
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking “green cards” to remain in the country permanently. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status.
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