Supreme Court issues rulings on Jan. 6 rioters, overturns Chevron doctrine (2024)

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Supreme Court issues rulings on Jan. 6 rioters, overturns Chevron doctrine (1)

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June 28, 2024 at 1:16 p.m. EDT

|Published June 28, 2024 at 9:30 a.m. EDT

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The Supreme Court has finished issuing opinions for Friday. In its final decision announced today, the high court said federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election. In two other opinions of the day, the court said banning homeless encampments does not violate the Eighth Amendment and curbed the power of federal government agencies to regulate vast parts of American life, overturning a 40-year-old legal precedent long targeted by conservatives. The final cases left to be decided this term include whether former president Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution.

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The Supreme Court issued four rulings Thursday morning. The justices allowed emergency abortions to continue in Idaho for now, while legal challenges continue; invalidated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s use of in-house legal proceedings to discipline those it believes have committed fraud; blocked a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan; and paused the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to improve air quality as it is challenged in a lower court.

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Monday will mark the first time since 2020 that the Supreme Court term runs into July. The court extended the session that year to contend with delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Before that, it had not happened since 1996. July rulings were a regular feature, however, in the 1970s and 1980s, under the tenure of Chief Justice Warren Burger.

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