The legal scholars Gillian Metzger and Kate Shaw discuss how recent Supreme Court decisions could enable Trump in his second term.

— OPINION — In case you missed it, among the Supreme Court’s panoply of precedent shredding opinions last week was one that overruled the court’s watershed 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. Under Chevron, federal courts deferred to an agency’s interpretation of a law, as long as the interpretation was reasonable. Last Friday’s ruling gives federal judges more leeway to question federal agency decision making. The ruling has important implications for food saf

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Case focused on White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter

The landmark decision alters the NPDES permit landscape, shifting the focus to specific actions over general outcomes. By Michael G. Romey, Benjamin D.

Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act

The US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled.