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The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 20
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
- This Missouri lawyer pushed to limit abortion. Now he’s Trump’s solicitor general pick (Kacen Bayless & Daniel Desrochers, The Kansas City Star)
- High Court 401(k) Suit Bid Targets Key Arbitration Exception (Austin R. Ramsey, Bloomberg Law)
- Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy (Mead Gruver, The Associated Press)
- Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
- The New Anti-Abortion Argument Takes Us Back to the 19th Century (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
Coming up: On Friday, Nov. 22, the court expects to issue its first opinion(s) from argued cases this term.
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Court grants challenge to FCC subsidies over nondelegation doctrine
The justices on Friday created the prospect of another major ruling on the role of administrative agencies and Congress’s ability to delegate power to those agencies. At the Biden administration’s request, the court agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that invalidated parts of a program by the Federal Communications Commission to improve internet and phone services in underserved areas.
The court of appeals said that the program violated the Constitution by improperly delegating Congress’s power to the FCC and the FCC’s power to a private company.
The theory at the heart of the case, Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research (along with a parallel case also granted on Friday, Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition v. Consumers’ Research ), is known as the nondelegation doctrine. The Supreme Court has not relied on the doctrine in nearly a century, but conservative lawyers and business groups have urged the justices in recent years to revive it. (John Elwood and Kal Golde both discuss the cases in more detail in recent stories for SCOTUSblog.)
In a brief order from the justices’ private conference on Friday morning, the justices agreed to take up both cases. They also instructed the parties to the case to address an additional question: whether the case is moot (that is, no longer a live controversy) because Consumers’ Research, the advocacy group challenging the program, failed to seek preliminary relief in the 5th Circuit.
The cases will be argued together sometime in March or April of next year, with a decision to follow by late June or early July.
This article was originally published at Howe on the Court .
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