In the biggest rulings from last term, the court ended the recognition of a woman's constitutional right to abortion and expanded gun rights. The new case gives its conservatives an opportunity to embrace an approach favored by business groups, with a ruling due by the end of June. The Supreme Court issued a ruling in 2006 that led to further uncertainty. There has been litigation and political debates over how much of a connection with a waterway a property must have in order to require a permit. The court on Monday will consider for a second time a bid by Chantell and Mike Sackett, a married couple from Idaho, to build a home on property that the EPA has deemed a protected wetland requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act, which they had failed to obtain. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under a different anti-pollution law, the Clean Air Act. The court issued a decision in June that constrained the U.S. On the term's first day, the justices are set to hear arguments in a case that could limit the scope of a landmark federal environmental law, the Clean Water Act of 1972. President Joe Biden's appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson - America's first Black woman justice - joins the court's liberal bloc after being confirmed by the Senate in April to succeed now-retired Justice Stephen Breyer. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
judicial body annually kicks off its term on the first Monday of October, and the justices have important cases on the schedule right away. Supreme Court's nine justices are poised on Monday to open a new nine-month term packed with major cases including disputes centered on race that give members of its conservative majority fresh opportunities to flex their muscles, with an environmental case up first.
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