Several cases the court has agreed to hear involve race, elections or both, and the court has also agreed to hear a dispute that returns the issue of free speech and LGBTQ rights to the court.
The new member of the court, , wasted no time joining the lively give-and-take, asking questions throughout nearly two hours of arguments in the dispute over the nation’s main anti-water pollution law, the Clean Water Act.
authority of the federal government to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act against a business-backed challengeSeveral conservative justices were more skeptical of the regulation in a case that tests the reach of the Clean Water Act beyond rivers, lakes and streams.
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