{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-releases-statement-after-supreme-court-hands-down-three-critical", "Rep. Stansbury Releases Statement after Supreme Court Hands Down Three Critical Decisions, Including Chevron Deference Decision", "2024-07-01", "2024", "2024-07", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) released the following statement after the United States Supreme Court handed down decisions on three critical cases involving Administrative Law, prosecutions of January 6 Insurrection cases, and protections for vulnerable and unhoused individuals.\n\n\"Once again, the extremism of Trump\u2019s Supreme Court supermajority is on full display in today\u2019s decisions handed down by the Court,\" said Rep. Stansbury. \"Taken together, these three decisions gut decades of legal precedent protecting our environment and public health, will undermine the prosecution of hundreds of Jan. 6 cases of individuals involved in the insurrection, and will leave our nation\u2019s most vulnerable and unhoused without protection.\n\nAs a science professional who has spent my career working to address our nation\u2019s water and climate challenges, it is shocking to watch as the Supreme Court has sought to legislate from the bench without regard for science, the established rule of law, and concern for the basic well-being our communities and environment.\n\nThis Supreme Court has sought to expand its power far beyond what the Founding Fathers ever could have imagined, undermining our nation\u2019s most basic checks and balances in the name of advancing an extremist conservative agenda. 40-years of legal precedent has been overturned with today\u2019s decisions in the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo case and countless public health, safety, and environmental protections are now threatened.\n\nCases like this are exactly why we need to reform the Court and hold our Justices accountable\u2014and why I introduced the Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act and am a co-sponsor of the Supreme Court Ethics Recusal and Transparency Act and High Court Gift Ban.\n\nThe full scope of these disastrous decisions will be seen in the upcoming months, but the Supreme Court is tightening its grip on the everyday lives of the American people with devastating consequences for the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the medicines we need, and so much more. We must reform the Court.\n\nToday, the Supreme Court handed down the following decisions. In a 6-3 ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court overturned 40-years of precedent and upended federal agencies\u2019 authority to interpret laws passed by Congress to issue regulations on countless, major issues for the American people, including climate and health care. In a 6-3 ruling in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the court upheld the Grants Pass law that banned homeless residents from sleeping outdoors, saying they didn\u2019t violate the Constitution\u2019s law of cruel and unusual punishment, which was strongly dissented by Justice Sotomayor. In a 6-3 ruling in Fischer v. United States, the Court ruled that the obstruction law used to charge the January 6 insurrectionists was improperly applied.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-releases-statement-after-supreme-court-hands-down-three-critical"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6337400302290916, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}