Three 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued in 2024 may over time substantially constrain federal agencies’ regulatory authority. The incoming Trump Administration may wish to rely on those holdings in implementing its regulatory reform strategy.

Alleging Idaho’s long-critiqued public defense system has worsened despite the state’s reform effort, the ACLU of Idaho asked the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene. Following the ACLU of Idaho’s 2015 lawsuit that alleged Idaho’s public defense system violated low-income people’s right to counsel guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment of the U.

The ACLU of Idaho is seeking the release of defendants lacking legal representation amid turmoil in the state’s public defense system.

Plus: Debate picks up steam between Trump supporters over the role of immigrant labor and US workers. Bald eagle is finally named as national bird.

The president-elect has filed a request with the Supreme Court to pause the enforcement of a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S.

The president-elect backed TikTok in a Truth Social post Friday as he tries to halt the law from taking effect.