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A Hearing on Herring: Supreme Court to Hear Potentially Historic Chevron Case

JonathanTurley

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Chevron U.S.A. Natural Resources Defense Council that judges should defer to the reasonable interpretation of agencies in administering ambiguous federal laws. In both lower court cases, Chevron carried the day for the agency. The cases are Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

SCOTUSBlog

Gore , the 2000 case that halted the recount in Florida in the presidential election, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote a concurring opinion (joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas) in which he explained that, in his view, the state court’s recount conflicted with the deadlines set by the state legislature for the election.

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“Craven” and “Insurrectionists”: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Other Denounce the Supreme Court for Granting Review of Presidential Immunity

JonathanTurley

Once you start to remove people from the ballot by declaring a riot an insurrection, even courts become insurrectionists by allowing for a review of lower court rulings. There are a variety of reasons why the Court could have put this on the calendar for further argument. .” It is that easy.

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