Polybius
Polybius's JournalSo did states that have abortion trigger laws immediately ban them today?
Or do they take time to go into effect?
Justices Keep Medicare Payment Changes for Low-Income Hospitals
Source: Bloomberg Law
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a 2005 rule that decreased the amount of additional Medicare payments hospitals get for serving a larger share of poor patients.
The decision means some providers may not be able to recoup the higher costs they say they spend treating low-income patients.
In a split 5-4 decision, the court said Department of Health and Human Services regulation is consistent with the text, context, and structure of the DSH provisions. The court held in calculating the Medicare fraction that individuals “entitled to Medicare Part A benefits” are all those qualifying for the program, regardless of whether they receive Medicare payments for part or all of a hospital stay.
The Medicare statute maps out how the Department of Health and Human Services should calculate these annual supplemental payments, known as disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustments.
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/justices-keep-medicare-payment-changes-for-low-income-hospitals
Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts dissented. Thomas and ACB were in the majority.
GOP Can Defend North Carolina Voter Law, Supreme Court Says
Source: Bloomberg Law
The Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly can step into defend the state’s voter identification law even though the state’s Democratic attorney general is already doing so, the US Supreme Court said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for an 8-1 court on Thursday agreed with North Carolina Senate leader Philip Berger and House Speaker Timothy Moore that the state Assembly had an interest in defending the law, particularly given the politically divisive nature of the legislation.
The 2018 voter law was passed over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, and challenged by the NAACP in federal court, saying it disproportionately harms Black and Latino voters. The litigation was stayed pending the Supreme Court ruling on the procedural question.
Gorsuch emphasized that North Carolina law specifically allows their legislative leaders to defend statutes against constitutional challenges. “Within wide constitutional bounds, States are free to structure themselves as they wish,” he said.
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/republicans-can-defend-north-carolina-voter-law-justices-say
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone dissent.
Democrat Joe Manchin signals he won't support Biden's call for a gas tax holiday
Source: ABC News
President Joe Biden's calls for Congress to pass a gas tax holiday were being met with skepticism Wednesday from both sides of the aisle.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he had several concerns with the proposal and signaled he would not support it.
"I'm not a yes right now, that's for sure," Manchin said, just hours before Biden was set to speak Wednesday afternoon.
For the last 25 years, all revenue from the federal gas tax has gone to the Highway Trust Fund, the major source of federal funding for highways, roads and bridges. Manchin noted Congress put an additional $118 billion into the fund when it passed the bipartisan infrastructure package.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrat-joe-manchin-signals-support-bidens-call-gas/story?id=85558791
Supreme Court Rejects Medical Transport of Prisoner in Habeas Case
Source: Bloomberg News
The US Supreme Court ruled against an Ohio death row inmate who asked a federal court to order his transportation to a hospital for a neurological exam.
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the court’s majority said two lower courts were wrong to grant Raymond Twyford’s request. The court held a transportation order that allows a prisoner to search for new evidence is not “necessary or appropriate in aid of” a federal court’s adjudication of a habeas corpus action when the prisoner has not shown that the desired evidence would be admissible in connection with a particular claim for relief.
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-rejects-medical-transport-of-prisoner-in-habeas-case
Paywall, looking for a better source...
Supreme Court says certain gun crimes are not 'crimes of violence' under federal law
Source: CNN
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robbery. The ruling will allow the man to attempt to reduce his sentence by 10 years.
In a 7-2 decision Tuesday, the court decided that a conviction for attempted robbery under the federal Hobbs Act does not fit the definition of a “crime of violence,” and therefore does not trigger an enhanced sentence when a firearm is used.
The ruling will allow the man, Justin Taylor, and other defendants who have received between five and 10 extra years tacked onto their sentences for attempted Hobbs Act robbery to now challenge those convictions and sentences.
Gorsuch appeared to criticize the separate dissents penned by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/taylor-supreme-court-ruling/index.html
Any chance of the abortion or gun rulings this week?
Opinions will be released Tuesday and Thursday this week. Perhaps one will be a big one or no?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/
Most Americans Don't Want Biden or Trump to Run Again: Poll
Source: Newsweek
A new poll has shown that a majority of Americans don't want either Joe Biden or Donald Trump to run as President in 2024.
On the question regarding should former President Donald Trump run for President in 2024, 55 percent of people said no while 31 percent said yes.
President Biden received an even more negative verdict from poll participants.
When asked whether Biden should run again for President in 2024, 64 percent of people said no while 21 percent said yes.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-new-poll-run-election-president-1717171
Biden falls while getting off his bike after a beach ride
Source: NPR
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — President Biden fell when he tried to get off his bike at the end of a ride Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, but wasn't hurt in the tumble.
"I'm good," he told reporters after U.S. Secret Service agents quickly helped him up. "I got my foot caught" in the toe cages.
Biden, 79, and first lady Jill Biden were wrapping up a morning ride when the president decided to pedal over to a crowd of well-wishers standing by the bike trail. Biden, who was wearing a helmet, took the spill when he tried to dismount, apparently falling on his right side and rolling on to his back before being helped up.
The president quickly collected himself and spent several minutes chatting with people who had gathered to watch him bike. Biden did not need medical attention and is "fine," according to a White House statement.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/18/1106057751/biden-falls-getting-off-bike
Supreme Court limits California labor law that allows private suits against employers
Source: Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In a victory for California employers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday placed limits on a state labor law that authorizes private lawsuits on behalf of groups of workers, even if they had agreed to resolve their disputes through individual arbitration.
The majority ruled the Federal Arbitration Act preempts or overrides the state law.
California is the only state to authorize such private suits as a means of enforcing its labor laws, the justices said. But by doing so, the state allows employees to escape the binding arbitration agreements they signed when they were hired, the court said.
The conservative high court has repeatedly overruled judges in California who refused to uphold arbitration clauses.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-15/supreme-court-california-labor-law-that-allowed-private-suits-against-employers
Now why wouldn't the article say what the vote was?
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