Major Supreme Court Decisions Announced 6/28

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Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curtailing federal agencies' power in major shift

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-deference-power-of-federal-agencies/

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.

The court split along ideological lines in the dispute, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were in dissent. Kagan read portions of her dissent from the bench.

Sadly predictable. The Prog 3's seeming-blind-faith in bureaucrats to not be activists, acting on personal pique, or corrupt is amazing, though not entirely surprising.

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SCOTUS Hands Down J6 Decision Affecting Hundreds of Capitol Protestors

https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/06/28/breaking-scotus-hands-down-j6-decision-effecting-hundreds-of-capitol-protestors-n4930125

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States that a federal obstruction law does not apply to January 6 protesters. The case affects hundreds of individuals who participated in the mostly peaceful "breach" of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Those sentences will all need to be reviewed now. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.

Plaintiffs argued that prosecutors misused a felony law, 18 U.S. Code § 1512, which involves tampering with a witness, victim, or informant against J6 suspects. The law was used against people arrested for destroying evidence in the Enron case back in 2001.

I think this also impacts the non-case against Trump.

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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Camping in Public Spaces

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/06/28/breaking-scotus-grants-pass-n4930126

In what sounds like one of the weirdest cases in recent memory, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of municipalities in the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. The case involved whether municipalities could bar homeless people from “camping” in public spaces, addressing the question, “Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ prohibited by the Eighth Amendment?”

The short summary from SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe in the site's live chat is that "The court holds that the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' barred by the Eighth Amendment."

This ruling restores to 9th Circuit cities flexibility in handling Sacred Homeless camping on sidewalk and in parks. It also removes from cities outside of the 9th Circuit the threat of the Boise case being applied to them.

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Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curtailing federal agencies' power in major shift

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-deference-power-of-federal-agencies/

Sadly predictable. The Prog 3's seeming-blind-faith in bureaucrats to not be activists, acting on personal pique, or corrupt is amazing, though not entirely surprising.

This post, https://x.com/tribelaw/status/1806696839493632376 , is interesting. I don't give a @#$% the profs Tribe spoke of, but Tribe's post is an admission that entire Ivy League courses were created to teach exploitation of the Chevron decision.