Overturning the “Chevron deference” could imperil Americans' health, safety, labor, air, water, food and environmental protections, writes Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
In an ominous but unsurprising development, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that may well imperi
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Al Franken Blasts Judge Gorsuch for Following the Law
The big takeaway from the nomination hearings of Judge Neil Gorsuch is that Democrats do not want a jurist on the Supreme Court who follows the rule of law.
They’ve been cherry-picking Judge Neil Gorsuch’s cases to find anything they can to paint him as a corporate shill which is the track the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer laid out for them.
One case that keeps coming up is the TransAm Trucking case.
Alphonse Maddin of Michigan was a truck driver for TransAm who was fired because he left his vehicle during freezing weather. Maddin’s employer, fired him for insubordination because, instead of waiting for help after his truck broke down, he unhooked the trailer and drove to a gas station.
1/31/2021
Palin v. New York Times is a Textualist Land Mine for the First Amendment News at Home by Richard E. Labunski
Richard Labunski is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Kentucky and author of James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
(Oxford University Press). He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-Santa Barbara and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.
For more than half a century, conservatives have wanted to eradicate
New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 Supreme Court decision that is the nation’s most important First Amendment case. A trial scheduled for this June may give them that opportunity. If the Supreme Court invalidates