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Supreme Court Sharply Limits Federal Government's Ability to Police Pollution Into Certain Wetlands | KQED

In Thursday's ruling, all nine justices agreed that the wetlands on the Sacketts' property are not covered by the act.But only five justices joined in the opinion that imposed a new test for evaluating when wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act.Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas and Alito would have adopted the narrower standard in 2006, in the last big wetlands case at the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court Poised To Let Accused Fraudsters Bring Challenges To SEC In-House Courts' Constitutionality Earlier Rather Than Simply Ruling On SEC In-House Courts' Constitutionality

Four years ago, having successfully skirted the issue for years, the U.S. Supreme Court finally weighed in on the issue of the constitutionality of the Securities and Exchange Commission's very handy in-house judicial system.In Lucia v. SEC, the court ruled 7-2 that the Lucia in questionan investment adviser the SEC believed had a habit of stretching the truth a bit about how thoroughly back-tested his strategies werehad a bone to pick with the agency, since the administrative law judge who found against him hadn't been appointed by the Commission itself but by its staff, and was therefore improperly appointed.

Nytimes

Yeshiva University Halts All Student Clubs to Block L.G.B.T.Q. Group

Yeshiva University abruptly announced on Friday that it had placed all undergraduate club activities on hold, the latest maneuver in the legal battle by the Modern Orthodox Jewish institution to keep from recognizing an L.G.B.T.Q. student group.

Washington Post

Supreme Court upholds California rules on rules on humane pork sales

A hog walks in a holding pen on the Ron Mardesen farm, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, near Elliott, Iowa.A farm animal welfare law in California was upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld California's right to block the sale of pork in the state unless producers abide by more humane regulations on the treatment of pregnant sows.

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Supreme Court weighs controversial election-law case

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican, speaks Wednesday to reporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.State Republicans want the court to overturn a decision by the state Supreme Court that ruled that the Republican legislature, in drawing new congressional district lines after the 2020 Census, had violated the state constitution with an extreme partisan gerrymander.

Advocate

SCOTUS Declines to Block Order Forcing University to Allow LGBTQ+ Club

(CNN) -- The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined on Wednesday a request from Yeshiva University to block a lower court order that requires the New York university to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.

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Supreme Court declines to block order requiring Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ student club

(CNN)The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined on Wednesday a request from Yeshiva University to block a lower court order that requires the New York university to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.

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Unlikely alliances in Supreme Court opinions on overtime, death penalty

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court Olivier Douliery /AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court defied its usual 6-to-3 conservative/liberal split in two decisions on Wednesday.One involved who qualifies for overtime pay.The other, Arizona's refusal to apply a Supreme Court precedent in death penalty jury instructions.

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An Old Question Returns to Washington: Is It Ever OK to Protest in Front of Someone's Home? - Washingtonian

On Wednesday, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay wrote a letter to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who has come under increasing pressure from conservatives to provide more protection for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who lives in Fairfax.

Chicago Tribune

Adam Carrington: The illegitimate attacks on the Supreme Court's legitimacy

Legitimacy.The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years.Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy.

Advocate

Yeshiva U. Blocks All Student Clubs Rather Than OK LGBTQ+ One

Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City, is suspending all undergraduate club activities at least temporarily to avoid recognizing an LGBTQ+ organization.

Queerty

Being gay is a choice? These 14 Twitter users have thoughts.

In last week's Pick of the Twitter, we asked you, cherished Queerty reader, to picture sexuality being a choice and people choosing queerness every single time.

Truthout

Left-wing politics

Ilhan Omar Urges Impeachment Investigations Into Right-Wing Justices

Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday demanded that the U.S. House launch impeachment probes into right-wing Supreme Court justices as part of a broader plan to reform the nation's chief judicial body following its decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.

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Left-wing politics

Supreme Court Overturns "Roe," Opening Door to Abortion Bans Across the Country

Extremist right-wing Supreme Court justices voted to overturn on Friday, the result of the far right's decades-long disinformation and funding campaign to restrict bodily autonomy and the right to an abortion in the U.S.

Nytimes

Trevor Noah Has Gun Law Ideas for New York

Noah says the state should propose new restrictions where "anyone can buy a gun if they want, but the gun stores are only open on the nights that the Knicks win."

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Privacy professionals

Supremes 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

The US Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade last month may have been doxxed - had their personal information including physical and IP addresses, and credit card info revealed - according to threat intel firm Cybersixgill.

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Here's How Much the Supreme Court Justices Made Last Year

New financial-disclosure reports released Thursday reveal how much the U.S. Supreme Court Justices made last yearand show that some of them were able to add six figures to their salaries through lucrative book deals.

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Trump-Appointed Justice Jumps In To Grill Trump Lawyer in Supreme Court Insurrection Case

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett questioned Trump's lawyer during the hearing on banning Trump from the ballot as an insurrectionist.

Barrett and conservative Justice Samuel Alito grilled Mitchell on potential holes in Trump's arguments. [ more ]

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Alito Says He Has Pretty Good Idea' Who Leaked Abortion Ruling

WASHINGTON Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the author of the majority opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade last June, told The Wall Street Journal's opinion pages that he had a pretty good idea who is responsible for leaking a draft of his opinion to Politico.Justice Alito added that he did not have the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.

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Biden says he's not confident of the outcome of the decision yet' on student loans

President Joe Biden on Wednesday raised clear concern that the Supreme Court may decide to strike down his student debt cancellation program, one day after several conservative justices expressed skepticism about the administration's authority.I'm confident we're on the right side of the law, Biden told CNN when asked if he was confident the administration would prevail in the case.

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