The United Stated filed a False Claims Act against a Tulsa-area woman in the Northern District of Oklahoma yesterday alleging fraud under the pandemic-era Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
USA v. Anderson
It's interesting to watch the imperial SCOTUS take shape. Roberts' legacy is now enshrined as the era when the Court vastly expanded its reach and activism, rapidly overturning bedrock precedent targeted by their conservative patrons. I wish I also didn't have to practice law in this era.
I am used to CONCACAF referee shenanigans, but I am absolutely flabbergasted by what I am watching in this game. A yellow card being given *while play is allowed to continue*?!?!? This ref is so far out of his depth #USMNT#CopaAmerica
Beginning to really regret my choice of professions. I didn't realize how much sanity and progress had rested on the good-faith effort of nine unelected individuals without a political axe to grind. That system no longer exists...or maybe it never did, but at least they pretended better.
The Netherlands and Austria are looking at Slovakia beating England currently and Switzerland downing Italy yesterday and thinking that side of the bracket is looking even better... #Euros
Fun Fact: the minimum clearance required by law for interstate highway overpasses was determined by the height of ICBM transport vehicles like this one, seen here squeezing an (unarmed) Atlas ICBM under an overpass in Benson, Arizona, en route to the Atlantic Missile Range, on December 1, 1956.
Even the majority opinion acknowledged that if Congress expressly provides for the agency to fill gaps or resolve specific ambiguities, courts must defer to that directive. I'm not saying that couldn't be down the road, but Roberts' opinion doesn't go nearly that far.
It wasn't a constitutional decision tbf. If Congress could get its shit together and amend the APA, they could actually reverse this decision. But Congress doing anything productive is really a funny idea.
I will say that the destruction of Chevron is a double-edged sword. If you don't think there aren't a hundred ways groups opposed to certain major projects can now use this decision to slow or stop them, you'd be wrong.
Chevron was always a way that courts kept shit off their dockets. Not anymore.
Kagan is on point here - the Court is giving itself power over "every open issue ... involving the meaning of regulatory law." Basically, everything...
And there it is--what this new majority has been up to all along... "we generalist judges know better than the experts in the area of law..."--and we're taking the power back to say that.
Absolutely garbage refereeing in the Czechia v. Turkiye game today. Istvan Kovacs should not get any games in the next round. Absolute shiiiiite. #Euro2024