The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden’s administration. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of fishing companies that challenged a government-run program partly funded by industry that monitored overfishing of herring off New
Prosecutors laid charges under an evidence-tampering provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act aimed at curbing wrongdoing on Wall Street. The Supreme Court ruled on June 28 in favor of Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Fischer, a former police officer charged under an accounting reform law after he entered the U.S. Capitol for four minutes on Jan. 6,
A top official in President Biden’s reelection campaign reacted to questions about Thursday’s performance. A co-chairman of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign says it’s unlikely that the president will be replaced by another Democrat after Thursday night’s debate performance. Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair of the Biden Campaign, told CNN, “I don’t think that you can
Candidates’ surrogates put their ’spin’ on the historic first presidential debate of 2024. ATLANTA—The CNN Presidential Debate “spin room” featured a parade of possible VP picks and many other Republicans who touted former President Donald Trump’s performance onstage. But only a few Democrats were present to defend President Joe Biden following the candidates’ debate on
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
The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state’s strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they are pregnant. The 4-3 ruling is a win for Republican lawmakers,
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday sided with a small Oregon town that imposes civil punishments on homeless people for sleeping in public spaces, finding that enforcement of its anti-camping rules is not prohibited by the Eighth Amendment’s protections from cruel and unusual punishment. The 6-3 decision from the court in the case known