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☆ Vehement Dissent From Supreme Court’s Liberal Wing Laments Vast Expansion of Presidential Power
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court’s three Democratic appointees railed in dissent against the conservative majority’s ruling that former President Donald J. Trump has some immunity for his official actions, declaring that their colleagues had made the president into “a king above the law.”Writing that the majority was “deeply wrong,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor added that beyond its consequences for the bid to prosecute Mr. Trump for his attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election, it would have “stark” long-term consequences for the future of American democracy. “The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding,” she wrote, in an opinion joined by the other two Democratic appointees, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Insulating the president of the United States — the most powerful person in the country and possibly the world, she noted — from criminal prosecution when he uses his official powers will allow him to freely use his official power to violate the law, exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, or other “evil ends.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Sonia Sotomayor, Mr, ”, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson Organizations: Democratic, United Locations: “, United States

☆ Big Tech gets a big win from the Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe Supreme Court isn't willing to blow up the internet just yet. The Texas law applied to social media companies with at least 50 million users, while Florida included companies with over 100 million users. As Judge Andrew Oldham wrote in his appeals court decision upholding the Texas law, the Florida law "prohibits all censorship of some speakers," while the Texas law "prohibits some censorship of all speakers." Part of the reason the Supreme Court might have agreed to hear the cases to begin with is because there was a circuit split between the states. But Calvert said on Monday that because the high court's decision is so favorable to the social media companies, that's not likely to happen.

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☆ Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Adam Liptak | Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Instead, the justices unanimously agreed to return the cases to lower courts for analysis. In the majority opinion, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that neither lower appeals court had properly analyzed the First Amendment challenges to the Florida and Texas laws. The laws were prompted in part by the decisions of some platforms to bar President Donald J. Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Supporters of the laws said they were an attempt to combat what they called Silicon Valley censorship. The laws, they added, fostered free speech, giving the public access to all points of view.

Persons: Elena Kagan, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Republicans, Capitol Locations: Florida, Texas

☆ Supreme Court dissents take a 'darker tone' on Trump immunity ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan laid out grim visions of U.S. democracy in their joint written dissents to the court's Monday decision on former President Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law," Sotomayor wrote. It's more of a warning," LaCroix told CNBC in an interview about the three dissents, written by the only three justices nominated to the court by Democratic presidents. The immediate effect was to send special counsel Jack Smith's criminal election fraud case against Trump back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. She will have to rule on whether the criminal charges pertain to official acts Trump carried out as president, granting him immunity, or his private conduct.

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☆ Sotomayor says the president can now 'assassinate a political rival' without facing prosecution
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIn her dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the conservative majority had enabled presidents to assassinate political rivals without fear of criminal prosecution. Related stories"When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution," Sotomayor wrote. Immune, immune, immune." Trump's lawyers had argued that he was immune from criminal prosecution over those efforts because they fell within the scope of his official duties. AdvertisementFormer federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani disagreed with Sotomayer, saying that there would be no presidential immunity for extreme circumstances like ordering the assassination of a political rival.

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☆ Supreme Court Extends Time Frame for Challenges to Regulations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Adam Liptak | More About Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The case on time limits, Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, No. 22-1008, arose from a challenge to a 2011 regulation of debit-card swipe fees brought by two trade associations in 2021. The amended suit said Corner Post could not have sued within the six-year period after the issuance of the regulation because it did not yet exist. “Has the Justice Department and the agencies considered whether there is any interaction between these two challenges?” Justice Kagan asked. The lawyer, Benjamin W. Snyder, responded, “I want to be careful here.”Then he added that the consequences could be enormous.

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☆ Opinion | The Supreme Court Puts the Pro-Life Movement to the Test
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rarely has a Supreme Court case had less legal meaning and greater moral weight than the decision Thursday morning in Moyle v. United States. The case was of such little legal consequence that you might have already forgotten about it; you’ve lost it in the haze of a shocking presidential debate and a host of far more consequential Supreme Court decisions. But Moyle illuminates a deep conflict within the anti-abortion movement, and the way the pro-life movement resolves that conflict will affect American life and politics for decades to come. The court dismissed the case as “improvidently granted.” In plain English, it means that it never should have taken the case in the first place. Even though Justices Elena Kagan,Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito wrote their own opinions, those opinions do not bind the lower courts the way a true Supreme Court majority opinion binds every federal court.

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CNN —A major Supreme Court ruling Friday that shifted power from the executive branch to the judiciary stands to transform how the federal government works. By overturning a 1984 precedent, the court’s conservative majority has made countless regulations vulnerable to legal challenge. The Supreme Court ruling could boost efforts by conservatives who have taken aim at the Biden Environmental Protection Agency’s rules limiting planet-warming pollution from vehicles, oil and gas wells and pipelines, and power plants. The ruling has injected legal uncertainty into regulations of all types, including those on technology, labor, the environment and health care. But the Supreme Court has yet to decide a case heard this term that might gut that limitation.

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☆ Oral dissents are back in vogue at the Supreme Court as liberals lament latest rulings
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —As the conservative Supreme Court majority has won case after case in recent days, liberal dissenters are having their moment in the courtroom. Other justices stared out at spectators or down at notes, perhaps anticipating the next opinions, and dissents, to be revealed. The court majority reversed a 1984 milestone that required judges to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of their congressional mandates. Her oral dissent lasted nearly 15 minutes, about five minutes longer than Roberts’ rendition of the majority opinion. They begin with the author of the majority opinion delivering the facts of the case, law involved, and the resolution.

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☆ SCOTUS seems determined to dismantle the administrative state. It will make regulating major industries tougher.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Then, according to Hockett, the case would be heard by an administrative court. Straight to federal court. "These two rulings largely amputate the two most important arms that our regulatory agencies use every day in overseeing our industrial economy," Hockett said. AdvertisementIn overturning the Chevron doctrine in a 6-3 decision, the high court has hamstrung federal agencies' regulatory powers. Panuccio said that he supported the decisions and called them "important checks on administrative power."

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☆ Summer camps are cracking down on 'Sephora kids' by banning luxury skincare products
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Kagan said all the kids kept asking, "Can I bring my Sephora?" Related storiesBryn Mawr has become one of several ritzy sleepaway camps — including Camp Mataponi in Maine and Tyler Hill Camp in Pennsylvania — that have sent letters discouraging or explicitly banning luxury skincare products. AdvertisementJane Kagan, left, said she knew she had a problem when fourth and fifth graders were asking her about bringing their many skincare products to camp. Tali Shustik, whose 9-year-old daughter, Jett, attends Tyler Hill, said she was "thrilled" when she got the email from Siegel discouraging beauty products at camp. While Tyler Hill hasn't enacted an all-out ban, it allows campers to bring only the products they use regularly.

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☆ Supreme Court delivers blow to power of federal agencies, overturning 40-year-old precedent
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 40-year-old precedent that has been a target of the right because it is seen as bolstering the power of "deep state" bureaucrats. It is the latest in a series of rulings in which the conservative justices have taken aim at the power of federal agencies. The ruling was 6-3 with the conservative justices in the majority and liberal justices dissenting. The Trump administration had embraced the war on "deep state" agency power, selecting judicial nominees in part based on their hostility to the federal bureaucracy.

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☆ Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Devan Cole | John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of an Oregon city that ticketed homeless people for sleeping outside, rejecting arguments that such “anti-camping” ordinances violate the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment. The case centered on “anti-camping” ordinances in Grants Pass, Oregon, that were challenged by several residents experiencing homelessness. “For some people, sleeping outside is their only option.” The city, she said, “punishes them for being homeless. The ordinances barred people from sleeping in public with “bedding,” which can include sleeping bags or bundled-up clothing. In reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling, housing rights groups came out in full force to condemn the decision.

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☆ The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it's constitutional for local governments to make it illegal to sleep in public places, even when there isn't sufficient shelter space. The case — City of Grants Pass v. Johnson — is the most consequential the court has decided dealing with homelessness in decades. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court ruled that laws regulating sleeping in public places don't constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Homeless rights activists held a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22, 2024, the day the court heard oral argument in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. An increasing number of cities and states across the country have passed laws — often anti-camping ordinances — similar to that in Grants Pass.

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☆ Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —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. But the decision will net a far wider swath of federal regulations affecting many facets of American life. The decision overturns the Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council precedent that required courts to give deference to federal agencies when creating regulations based on an ambiguous law. The justices have been incrementally diminishing federal power for years, but the new case gave the court an opportunity to take a much broader stride. The Supreme Court had been trending in that direction for years, knocking back attempts by federal agencies in other contexts to approve regulations on their own.

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☆ Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an Oregon city’s laws aimed at banning homeless residents from sleeping outdoors, saying they did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision is likely to reverberate beyond Oregon, altering how cities and states in the West police homelessness. The ruling, by a 6-to-3 vote, split along ideological lines, with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch writing for the majority. The laws, enacted in Grants Pass, Ore., penalize sleeping and camping in public places, including sidewalks, streets and city parks. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote that the decision would leave society’s most vulnerable with fewer protections.

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☆ Supreme Court rejects multibillion-dollar Purdue Pharma opioid settlement that shielded Sackler family
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

As the nation continues to grapple with the opioid epidemic, the Sackler family had agreed to pay $6 billion to families and states as part of an agreement to wind down Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. In exchange, the Sackler family would be immunized from future civil liability claims. Those supporting the bankruptcy argued the yearslong process had gone on long enough and was unlikely to yield additional money from the Sackler family. The vast majority of known current opioid victims and their families supported the agreement. But the Justice Department said it was a raw deal for victims – particularly potential future victims.

Persons: Sackler, Neil Gorsuch, ” Gorsuch, “, ” Kavanaugh, ”, John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Organizations: Washington CNN, Chief, Congress, Purdue Pharma, Department Locations: New York

☆ Supreme Court Rejects Liability Shield at Center of Purdue Pharma Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that members of the wealthy Sackler family cannot be shielded from lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis as part of a bankruptcy settlement that would channel billions of dollars to victims and their families. In a 5-to-4 decision, written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a majority of the justices held that the federal bankruptcy code does not authorize a liability shield for third parties in bankruptcy agreements. Justice Gorsuch was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson. In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote that the “decision is wrong on the law and devastating for more than 100,000 opioid victims and their families.” He was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The decision jeopardizes a carefully negotiated settlement Purdue and the Sacklers had reached in which members of the family promised to give up to $6 billion to states, local governments, tribes and individuals to address a devastating public health crisis.

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☆ The Supreme Court is poised to unleash a weapon against Biden's climate policies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Climate advocates and business groups are closely watching the US Supreme Court this week. The court could issue a ruling that sharply curtails the federal government's power to regulate the environment, including President Joe Biden's climate policies. Legal experts say the Supreme Court, with its conservative majority, is likely to overturn or significantly limit the Chevron doctrine. Meanwhile, he added, administrative lawyers have been preparing for this very scenario at the Supreme Court. Biden's EPA hasn't relied on the Chevron doctrine to defend its climate rules.

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☆ Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. The court dismissed an appeal brought by Idaho officials, meaning a lower court ruling that allows doctors in the state to perform abortions in emergency situations remains in effect for now. The legislation, known as the Defense of Life Act, went into effect in 2022 when the Supreme Court rolled back Roe. The Supreme Court in January allowed Idaho to enforce the provisions while agreeing to hear oral arguments in the case. The emergency room dispute is one of two abortion cases the Supreme Court considered this term, both of which arose in the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe.

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☆ Bloomberg: Supreme Court appears to side with Biden admin in abortion case, according to draft briefly posted on website
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The release was a stunning development at the Supreme Court, which usually safeguards the release of its opinions. The abortion case was considered among the most significant of the current term that is winding down ahead of the July 4 holiday. A Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed that a “document” was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the court’s website. The decision came days after the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort by anti-abortion groups to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In January, the Supreme Court agreed to decide the case and allowed the law to take effect while it did so.

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☆ Supreme Court allows White House to press social media companies to remove disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( John Fritze | Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the White House and federal agencies such as the FBI may continue to urge social media platforms to take down content the government views as misinformation, handing the Biden administration a technical if important election-year victory. Republican officials in two states – Missouri and Louisiana – and five social media users sued over that practice in 2022, arguing that the White House did far more than “persuade” the tech giants to take down a few deceptive items. That might include, the justices theorized, social media threats targeting public figures or disclosures of sensitive information about US troops. The case arrived at the high court at a time when the government has repeatedly warned of foreign efforts to use social media to influence elections. The jawboning case was one of several high-profile matters the court is deciding at intersection of the First Amendment and social media.

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☆ Opinion | The Supreme Court Neuters a Vital Public Watchdog
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority talks a lot about the importance of history and tradition in deciding cases. The decision, in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, struck down the S.E.C.’s use of in-house judges to bring enforcement actions against securities fraud. If the agency wants to go after securities fraud, it will have to go to federal court. When a lawsuit involves the protection of rights of the public generally, juries have never been required. Its impact will reach far beyond securities fraud, hamstringing similar tribunals in agencies responsible for the environment, public health, food and consumer safety, worker protections and much more.

Persons: ”, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson Organizations: Securities, Exchange Commission

☆ The 5 biggest cases the Supreme Court hasn't yet decided
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The nation's highest court typically wraps up its business by the end of June, but court watchers count roughly a dozen major pending decisions. Trump v. United States: The Trump immunity caseThe implications for Trump alone made this the most closely-watched case this term. As Justice Neil Gorsuch said during oral arguments, the court may write "a rule for the ages." Justices heard oral arguments in a case brought by commercial fishermen about a rule requiring them to pay for monitors that track potential overfishing. Justice Elena Kagan said during oral arguments that 70 Supreme Court rulings and more than 17,000 lower-court decisions have relied on Chevron.

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☆ The Supreme Court’s approach on ‘history and tradition’ is irking Amy Coney Barrett
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Devan Cole | John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Though Justice Clarence Thomas’ decision in a major trademark case last week was unanimous, it prompted a sharp debate led by Justice Amy Coney Barrett over the use of history to decide the case. “There definitely is the potential formation here of an alternative or several alternative approaches to history that ultimately draw a majority,” Wolf said. “What we could be seeing is a more nuanced approach to using that history,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center. But in a striking concurrence that captured support from both liberal and conservative justices, Justice Elena Kagan asserted that the court’s historic analysis need not end with the late-18th century. Barrett’s concurrence said the dispute could have been dealt with based on the court’s past precedent with trademark law and stressed that just leaning on the nation’s trademark history wasn’t good enough.

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