Daily Supreme Court News Briefing - June 28, 2024
🗽Supreme Court updates to help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 28, 2024
People Power United declares the Supreme Court has become unhinged.
In response to recent Supreme Court shenanigans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“The Supreme Court has become unhinged. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.
Daily Supreme Court News Briefing
NEW Rulings
NBC: Supreme Court rules for Jan. 6 rioter challenging obstruction charge
Lawrence Hurley and Ryan J. Reilly report that on Friday the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 “in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.” Justices Barrett, Kagan and Sotomayor dissented.
New York Times: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
Adam Liptak and others at the New York Times write about Friday’s decision overturning Chevron and ending judicial deference to federal agencies.
NPR: U.S. Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places
Jennifer Ludden reports that on Friday the Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, “overturned lower court rulings that deemed it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping outside if they had nowhere else to go.”
Other Rulings
NBC: Liberal Justice Sotomayor bemoans 'dismantling' of federal agency power as Supreme Court curbs SEC
Lawrence Hurley reports that in her dissent in SEC v. Jarkesy, Justice Sotomayor “accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of seizing power for itself.”
Vox: The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies
Ian Millhiser writes about the damage that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy will cause. He says it could result in the arbitrary end of dozens, or even hundreds, of federal laws.
Wall Street Journal: A Supreme Court Triumph for Trial by Jury
The Editorial board argues in favor of the Supreme Court’s ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy.
AP: Despite Supreme Court ruling, the future of emergency abortions is still unclear for US women
Amanda Seitz reports that the Supreme Court’s ruling in the mifepristone case actually does nothing to clarify emergency abortion access for women.
Also covered by: New York Times
Slate: Sonia Sotomayor Is Trying to Warn Us About the Supreme Court’s Dirtiest Open Secret
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern speak with Lisa Heinzerling—a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who served in the EPA–about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Jarkesy and Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.
General
New York Times: MAGA Is Not Getting Everything It Wants From the Supreme Court
David French argues that the Supreme Court’s conservatives are rejecting some legal theories from the right as well as delivering blows to the left, resulting in criticism from both sides. He notes that Donald Trump’s appointees “forged their reputations” and legal doctrines before Trump was president.
Judge Shopping
Reuters: Did these LGBTQ rights lawyers judge-shop? This Alabama court thinks so.
Jenna Greene reports on a group of “lawyers from LGBTQ and civil rights organizations, who face potential sanctions for judge shopping in a case over gender-affirming treatment.”
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