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According to leaked memos reported by the New York Times, Chief Justice John Roberts pushed to block President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan in five days without oral arguments, full briefing, or input from lower courts.
On February 9, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court halted President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan with a 5-4 vote along partisan lines.
A draft of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which overruled the constitutional right to an abortion, was leaked to the public before its official release.
In a speech, Justice Clarence Thomas linked the rise of progressivism with totalitarian leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Mao Zedong, as well as with racial segregation and eugenics.
Harold Krent speculates that Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito may be considering retirement to allow former President Donald Trump to appoint their successors if he is re-elected.
A Louisiana state jury ordered Chevron to pay approximately $740 million to clean up coastal damage caused by its operations.
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision allows Chevron's case regarding coastal damage in Louisiana to be reheard in federal court, vacating the state court verdict.
The legal argument used by oil companies to move their Louisiana environmental cases to federal court is that their current operations are related to work they performed for the U.S. government during World War II.
Chief Justice John Roberts described President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan as "the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector," according to leaked memos.
Harold Krent asserts that Chief Justice John Roberts instigated the unorthodox use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket to block the Clean Power Plan for political reasons.
Harold Krent believes the Supreme Court's 2016 decision to block the Clean Power Plan marked the beginning of the Roberts Court's aggressive use of the shadow docket.
Dozens of lawsuits were filed in 2013 against oil companies, including Chevron and Exxon Mobil, alleging decades of violations of Louisiana's state environmental laws.