"The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the authority of executive agencies, sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer to the expertise of federal administrators in carrying out laws passed by Congress," the New York Times reports.
"The precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, is one of the most cited in American law. There have been 70 Supreme Court decisions relying on Chevron, along with 17,000 in the lower courts."
"The decision threatens regulations in countless areas, including the environment, health care and consumer safety."
"The vote was 6 to 3, dividing along ideological lines."
"The Supreme Court sided on Friday with a member of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying that prosecutors had overstepped in using an obstruction law to charge him," the New York Times reports.
"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, read the law narrowly, saying it applied only when the defendant's actions impaired the integrity of physical evidence. Lower courts will now apply that strict standard, and it will presumably lead them to dismiss charges against many defendants."
"The most prominent defendant charged with obstruction is former President Donald Trump as part of the federal case accusing him of plotting to subvert the 2020 election."
"The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an Oregon city's laws aimed at banning homeless residents from sleeping outdoors, saying they did not violate the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment," the New York Times reports.
"The ruling, by a 6-to-3 vote, split along ideological lines, with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch writing for the majority. The laws, enacted in Grants Pass, Ore., penalize sleeping and camping in public places, including sidewalks, streets and city parks."
"House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that would slash funding for the Department of Justice and U.S. attorneys' offices across the country, the latest attempt by the GOP to punish federal law enforcement agencies that they claim have been weaponized against conservatives, especially former President Donald Trump," the New York Times reports.
"The spending bill, approved along party lines by a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, would cut funding for salaries and other expenses at the Justice Department by 20 percent, and for U.S. attorneys' offices by 11 percent."
"The near-daily exchanges of fire along Lebanon's border with northern Israel have intensified at an alarming rate in recent weeks, spurring escalating threats between Israel and Hezbollah and forcing the U.S. to call for an urgent diplomatic solution," CNBC reports.
"An all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah — the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia militant and political organization, called a terrorist group by the U.S. and U.K. — would be devastating for both sides."
"So stark is the danger of war erupting between Israel and Hezbollah — a far larger and more heavily armed fighting force than Hamas — that President Joe Biden last week sent one of his top aides, Amos Hochstein, to Israel and Lebanon to push for a solution."
"A Biden administration push to curtail worsening border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is running into major headwinds because of the difficulty the U.S. faces in arranging a cease-fire in Gaza," the Wall Street Journal reports.
"The connections between the two fronts underscore the diplomatic conundrum facing the White House as it seeks to prevent a full-scale war that could draw in Iran and broaden the fighting well beyond Gaza."
"Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he supports Louisiana's new law mandating the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms and said he thinks the law will survive legal challenges," The Hill reports.
Said Johnson: "I'm supportive of it, yeah. And I think it should pass court muster. I think there's a number of states trying to look to do the same thing, and I don't think it's offensive in any way. I think it's a positive thing."
"President Biden's re-election campaign is taking aim at former President Trump over his actions during the attack three and a half years ago on the U.S. Capitol, as they launch a new ad on the eve of the first presidential debate," Fox News reports.
"The spot features Genesee County, Michigan, Sheriff Chris Swanson discussing how he watched in horror as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and attacked Capitol police officers on Jan. 6, 2021 as they aimed to disrupt congressional certification of Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump."
Swanson, in the ad, says "it should have been stopped. That's neglect of duty."
"Oklahoma's state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the latest conservative push testing the boundaries between religious instruction and public education," the New York Times reports.
"Former Donald Trump chief of staff-turned-co-defendant Mark Meadows has gone to court to gain access to records from his time in the White House, an effort to help contest the criminal charges against him in Georgia," CNN reports.
The two astronauts aboard the first human flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft remain stuck indefinitely at the International Space Station while engineers try to figure out technical problems, the Washington Post reports.
The spacecraft and its crew were scheduled to return after eight days, on June 18. But yesterday NASA announced an indefinite postponement until sometime in July.
"The chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court called for an investigation Wednesday after the leak of a draft order that showed the court would take a case brought by Planned Parenthood that seeks to declare that access to abortion is a right protected by the state constitution," the AP reports.
"The Internal Revenue Service apologized to billionaire investor Ken Griffin for the release of his tax returns, saying the government is addressing the data-security lapses exposed by the damaging leak of Griffin's information and that of many other wealthy Americans," the Wall Street Journal reports.
"The apology followed Griffin's withdrawal Monday of a lawsuit against the government. Griffin, along with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, was one of the wealthy taxpayers whose tax records were disclosed by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn to the news organization ProPublica and revealed publicly in news articles starting in June 2021."
David Roberts: "People lament the 'post-truth' era we're living in. Misinformation. Epistemic bubbles. Algorithmic distortions. Etc. But I need people to understand that we really haven't seen anything yet. Though we take them for granted and they've seen better days we still have largely functioning information-producing institutions. We still have something approximating a handle on what's happening around us."
"All of that goes away under Trump – any vestigial connection to objective reality. Then everything is propaganda."
"His prime minister was among the last to know. That is how secretive, how confined to a small group of advisers President Emmanuel Macron's shock decision to dissolve Parliament and call French legislative elections was," the New York Times reports.
"Gabriel Attal, 35, was a personal favorite, his wunderkind, when Mr. Macron named him prime minister in January. Yet, just months after entrusting Mr. Attal with the task of revitalizing his government, Mr. Macron snubbed him as he considered one of the most important decisions of his presidency: whether to call an election at the very moment the anti-immigrant National Rally party had surged."
"Mr. Macron's style has always been intensely top-down, but this time he has played with the possibility of ushering in the once unthinkable in the form of a far-right government. The small group making the decision was so insular that even many of his ministers and supporters were left dumbfounded at his readiness to take such a gamble."
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