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Flush with Regulation: Supreme Court Expands Federal Sewage Permit Power

Environmentalists rejoice as a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court expands the requirement for seeking a federal permit under the Clean Water Act to include wastewater or sewage that makes its way to navigable waters through the ground. The statute had merely required a permit for ‘direct from the source’ pollutants. With two conservative […]

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Preemptive Policing: Supreme Court Backs Cop Who Stops Car on a Hunch

The Supreme Court just overturned the opinions of two lower courts and said a law enforcement officer who had a hunch did not violate a man’s 4th Amendment rights when he stopped his car without ‘reasonable suspicion’ of lawbreaking.

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Unelected Judges or Unelected Bureaucrats: Which Should Interpret the Law?

Visit The Patriot Post: America’s News Digest Would you rather have decisions on how to live made by unelected judges or unelected bureaucrats? Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas this week failed to get his colleagues to review his own 2005 decision in the Brand X case — which relies on, and expands, the famous […]