Significant coming cases could continue the trend. The justices have already set the United States on a more conservative course. If justice after justice finds it necessary to defend the court’s power, what does that tell you?Īnother Momentous Term for the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Seems Awfully Nervous About Its Own Legitimacy The First Step Act of 2018 allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence. The federal government and the state have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country.Ĭoncepcion v.

In a case under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, Texas is not protected by sovereign immunity by ratifying the Constitution, the state agreed that its sovereignty would yield to the national power to raise and support the Armed Forces. Texas Department of Public Safety (June 29, 2022) The rescission of the Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico policy) did not violate the Immigration and Nationality Act. The “best system of emission reduction” identified by the EPA in the Clean Power Plan was not within the authority granted to the Agency in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Environmental Protection Agency (June 30, 2022)

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