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An unpublished September 14 directive tells federal wildlife staff that an act counts as a prohibited "take" only when it is aimed deliberately at a particular animal, adopting a 1995 Supreme Court dissent over the majority that rejected it.

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Orbit did not become a military domain by argument. It became one because the machine that put an object there was designed to deliver a warhead, and the two problems are the same problem.

The House sent the President a Russia sanctions bill whose real novelty is an explicit grant of tariff power, written in the exact terms the Supreme Court said would be required.

Brokers were recorded selling access to a presidential pardon for as much as $300,000, which is legal because the Justice Department's review process was never required in the first place.

A court struck down New York's $75 billion climate superfund law by ruling that federal law leaves states no room to charge fossil fuel producers for past emissions, even as the federal government dismantles its own climate rules.

Court-ordered disclosures show ICE recorded 18 miscarriages in detention through September 2025 and none since, because the only thing producing that number was a medical billing contract that ended, and no rule ever required the agency to count.

The Fed raised rates a quarter point against the President's explicit demands, and the harder question is whether that proves the institution is protected or only that this chairman happened to agree with the data.

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The justices said the government is unlikely to win on the merits, a second judge appointed by the President struck the whole rule down, and the rule is finished for this election, but not one opinion answered whether the Postal Service ever had the authority.