Supreme Court seems wary of limiting federal regulators’ power in a data privacy case

Supreme Court seems wary of limiting federal regulators’ power in a data privacy case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared wary of limiting the power of federal regulators on Tuesday in a case over multimillion-dollar penalties levied against telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T. The mobile corporations appealed to the justices after the Federal Communications Commission discovered they offered clients’ location data with out correct safeguards. The FCC slapped…

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Justice Jackson chides colleagues over pro-Trump emergency orders

Justice Jackson chides colleagues over pro-Trump emergency orders

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme CourtJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained assault on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to profit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that may “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.” The courtroom’s latest justice, Jackson delivered a prolonged evaluation of roughly two dozen courtroom orders issued…

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