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Supreme Court to decide if legislatures can bypass courts despite 'unconstitutional' election rules
June 30, 2022
The United States Supreme Court has said it will review whether state legislatures have the authority to ignore courts on election rules even if they are found to be unconstitutional.
SCOTUS Blog first reported that the high court will hear a North Carolina case on the dubious "independent state legislature" theory.
"In an election case out of North Carolina, SCOTUS agrees to review the "independent state legislature" theory next term. Under that theory, state legislatures have broad power to set rules for federal elections, even if state courts say those rules are unconstitutional," SCOTUS Blog explained in a tweet.
Following the 2020 presidential election, supporters of then-President Donald Trump claimed that state legislatures had the power to overturn the outcome of elections.
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Man behind J6 documentary needs 'two armed guards' due to Trump supporters' threats: BBC
June 30, 2022
Documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, whose film "Unprecedented" examines the final days of former President Donald Trump's White House, revealed this week that he needs armed security guards due to threats from Trump supporters.
In an interview with the BBC, Holder said that he's been getting multiple subpoena requests ever since he was called to testify earlier this month before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots.
"Well, my life changed about a week ago and I now literally have two armed guards outside this studio right now that follow me around everywhere," Holder told the BBC.
He then elaborated on accusations he's faced from conspiracy-minded Trump supporters.
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"According to some, I’m an undercover FBI agent," he said. "Some think I’m an MI6 spy, and there’s all sorts of conspiracies and threats that are coming through."
Fellow Jan. 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson has also received significant security due to threats she's faced ever since giving explosive testimony about the twice-impeached former president's actions before, during, and after the Capitol riots.
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The Supreme Court finished its term by stripping the authority of the federal government: CNN analyst
June 30, 2022
Looking at the collective term of the Supreme Court, the justices have slowly eroded the power of the executive and legislative branches of government, according to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
The Supreme Court recently eliminated powers of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce regulations and disputed President Joe Biden's elimination of the Remain in Mexico policy and sent it back to a court where a pro-Donald Trump judge has been hostile to the administration.
Talking about the cases, Toobin explained, "conservatives [have] been so successful in the Supreme Court this term and for a generation have been pushing on these issues. And one of their great causes has been to limit the power of the federal government. Especially the administrative agencies."
The Constitution documents the separation of powers between the three branches of government, which were supposed to be equal in power. As the court strikes down laws passed by Congress, or the power of federal agencies to regulate corporations the question becomes if the Court is creating an imbalance in the equality of power.
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"The major question doctrine and the Chevron deference both deal with how much power administrative agencies should have," said Toobin.
Judicial correspondent Jessica Schneider explained that the court clearly came down against the Biden administration, limiting their power to use the EPA to regulate deadly toxins and protect Americans. The court decided 6-3 to limit the EPA's ability to regulate power plants.
"The Supreme Court saying here that the EPA does not have that broad authority that the lower court said it did to regulate the power plant industry and emissions in general," said Schneider. "This is actually reversing the lower court. This is sending it back to the lower court, but this will have broad implications for the EPA's powers moving forward. So I want to just take you through some of the procedures here."
"Basically, the lower court had said here that an Obama rule, which regulated carbon emissions from power plants and more broadly regulated power plants and how they should be shifting to renewable resources instead of just coal. They said that rule was okay, that a subsequent Trump rule was not okay. But the Supreme Court now reversing that and saying that, no, the EPA did not have this broad authority that the Obama administration said it did."
Essentially, the Court is saying that if Congress didn't give specific powers to regulate these issues then they can't do it. Congress would have to spell out specifically that the EPA can regulate such things.
"We were just talking about the major questions doctrine," said host Poppy Harlow. "This court this term has used that doctrine to say no vaccine mandate, OSHA, you can't do that, you can't have an eviction moratorium, and no, EPA, you cannot issue this. That's a huge deal!"
Toobin agreed, noting that the case could be worse for the agencies under the executive branch.
"Chief Justice Roberts' opinion does not mention the Chevron case at all. Justice [Elena] Kagan's dissent mentions it several times. So they don't explicitly overrule the Chevron doctrine. It is sort of a classic Chief Justice [John] Roberts ruling. But clearly the direction he's going is quite clear, which is towards limiting the power of administrative agencies. But he does not go as far as some conservatives wanted in overruling the chevron case altogether. This decision is a defeat for the Biden administration. It's a defeat for the regulatory agencies and a defeat for the cause of limiting climate change, but it's not quite as bad a defeat on climate change."
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