Over the past few weeks, flooding from storms has battered cities in the South and the East Coast, from Louisiana to New Jersey. Overlapping atmospheric rivers over the West Coast have brought heavy rains that are likely to come back in the next few days. So far this week, Californians have not seen the kinds […]
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Supreme Court’s Mixed Record on Overturning Precedents
It can sometimes seem that the Supreme Court is on a jurisprudential rampage that has left the legal landscape cluttered with the corpses of discarded precedents. In just the past two terms, after all, it has done away with the constitutional right to abortion and race-conscious admissions in higher education. Judging by oral arguments this […]
Read MoreWill The Supreme Court Upend How Government Works?
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in two cases inviting the justices to drastically restrict the authority of federal agencies, upend decades of precedent and take more power for themselves. At least four members of the court seem prepared to do so. The question is whether Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Amy Coney […]
Read MoreWhat the Supreme Court Fishery Case Could Mean for Federal Agencies’ Power
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a set of cases that could pave the way for its conservative supermajority to undercut how American society imposes rules on businesses, advancing a key goal of the conservative legal movement. Such a ruling would make it easier to challenge regulations across a gamut of issues, like […]
Read MoreCanada’s Boreal Forests Badly Damaged by Logging
Canada has long promoted itself globally as a model for protecting one of the country’s most vital natural resources: the world’s largest swath of boreal forest, which is crucial to fighting climate change. But a new study using nearly half a century of data from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec — two of the […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear a second challenge to a foundational precedent on the power of executive agencies. The new case is almost identical to one the court agreed to hear in May, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451. The court’s usual practice when asked to hear a follow-on […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would hear a second challenge to a foundational precedent on the power of executive agencies. The new case is almost identical to one the court agreed to hear in May, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451. The court’s usual practice when asked to hear a follow-on […]
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