Supreme Court upends Chevron decision and makes it harder to charge Capitol rioters and Trump

(28 Jun 2024)
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1. Exterior of the US Supreme Court

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
"In a major victory for conservative and business interests, the Supreme Court overruled a 40-year-old case that had made it easier to sustain governmental regulations on the environment, consumer protection, public safety, public health, and workplace safety."

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3. STILL The Ruth & Pat, a herring seine boat, motors out of the fog off the coast of South Portland, Maine.

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
"The decision, today got rid of a case known as Chevron, which basically says that when federal laws are not crystal clear, judges should defer to the experts who work at federal agencies when trying to discern whether the regulations that they've imposed comply with federal law."

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5. U.S. Supreme Court justices posing for group photo

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
"The Supreme Court, in a decision in which the six conservative justices joined, said that judges have more of a role to play than the Chevron decision said. That judges shouldn't defer to agency experts when statutes are unclear; that's the work of judges. The three liberal justices were in dissent. They called the case potentially convulsive shock to the legal system. Environmental groups and others who had backed the Chevron decision said that the outcome would make it much harder to sustain regulations and could in fact hobble the workings of the federal government."

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7. Close Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts
8. Close Associate Justice Elena Kagan

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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
"The Chief Justice, John Roberts, in writing his majority opinion, tried to make clear that today's decision would not affect the thousands of court decisions, mainly in the lower courts that had used the Chevron case to uphold regulations. But Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent, said she was not so sure that the chief justice was right and that she expected an onslaught of challenges to existing regulations."

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10. STILL - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump gather on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington

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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sherman, The Associated Press:
"The Supreme Court has made it harder for federal prosecutors to use an obstruction charge that is faced by hundreds of people who participated in the January 6th, 2021, attack on the Capitol and also is faced by former President Donald Trump. In a 6 to 3 ruling the court said that the obstruction charge, which was part of a law that was passed in response to the Enron scandal, more than 20 years ago, can only be used to show obstruction when defendants actually try to destroy or otherwise impair documents that are necessary for an investigation."

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12. STILL Then-President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the Elector College certification of Joe Biden's win in the 2020 presidential race

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