Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce New Border Law
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Texas law enforcement can begin charging illegal border crossers with a state crime after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a procedural ruling Tuesday. The court issued two rulings in less than 24 hours this week, ultimately allowing Texas’ border bill, SB 4, to go into effect. The opinion sends the […]
US Supreme Court halts EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution
The Supreme Court’s decision prevented the EPA from enforcing “good neighbor” rules designed to limit emissions of air pollutants from out-of-state sources that affect downwind states. The rules target smokestack emissions from power plants and industries that contribute to smog-causing pollution in neighboring states. The rule is on hold in nearly a dozen states due […]
Supreme Court signals decisions will stretch into July
The Supreme Court is increasingly determined not to announce its final ruling for this term until July. By tradition, Chief Justice John Roberts announces on the penultimate day of briefing that the next and final day of briefing will be the first. But Justice Roberts made no such announcement on Thursday, suggesting that Friday’s planned […]
Supreme Court rejects opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic while protecting the Sackler family that owns the company from civil lawsuits over opioid addiction. After more than six months of deliberations, the justices voted 5-4 to […]
Supreme Court claws back SEC’s enforcement powers
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down an internal system the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) used to seek civil fraud penalties, stripping the SEC of its authority. The ideologically-aligned 6-3 ruling finds unconstitutional the SEC’s internal administrative tribunal, a key tool it has used to enforce securities laws, and the Biden administration has warned […]
Supreme Court rules to allow emergency exceptions to Idaho’s abortion ban
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, at least for now, Idaho doctors should be allowed to perform emergency abortions to comply with a federal law that requires emergency rooms to provide “stabilizing care” to seriously ill patients, despite the state’s near-total ban on abortions. In an unsigned opinion, the court found that appeals orders in […]
Trust in Supreme Court plunges ahead of key decisions on presidential immunity, Jan. 6
A new poll finds that 70% of Americans believe Supreme Court justices are more likely to shape the law to fit their own ideology than to serve as neutral adjudicators of the law. Additionally, an Associated Press-NORC poll released Thursday found that fewer than a third of Americans think the Supreme Court is likely to […]
Supreme Court social media verdict
technology Full text Justice Alito slams White House in social media case dissent Justice Samuel Alito slammed the White House in a Supreme Court dissent on Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” as it sought to curb misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Justice Alito, along […]
Supreme Court mistakenly posts draft opinion in key Idaho abortion case
The U.S. Supreme Court mistakenly posted a draft of a ruling on a key abortion case on its website on Wednesday, but quickly removed it. The opinion concerns whether hospitals are required to perform abortions in emergencies in Idaho despite state law banning them. Bloomberg News reported that the opinion was briefly posted on its […]
DOJ urges Supreme Court to reject effort by Steve Bannon to avoid prison
The Department of Justice has filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to reject Steve Bannon’s emergency appeal to avoid prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress. Bannon, a former senior adviser to former President Trump, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after failing to appear before a […]