When MegaCorps collide, the UKSC must decide. Judgment today finds [11m of elderly gent reading a script] that the Manchester Ship Canal is not obliged to accept "trespass and nuisance" in the discharge of untreated sewage from United Utilities simply on the grounds that it has no standing in law.

I'm quite the fan of the UK Supreme Court channel. The judgments of this final court of appeal are meant to be open and accessible to everyone. Accordingly each case results in a Long Judgment and a Press Release and a YouTube performance. "However, United Utilities argues that the Canal Company has no cause of action because then only way to avoid the discharges of foul water into the canal would be to construct new sewerage infrastructure."

The Supreme Court has found that: "Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts." CNN NYT WaPo

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors (NYT)

Supreme Court Says Ban on Homeless Camping Does Not Violate Constitution (WaPo) Supreme Court Allows Policy Targeting Homeless People (NBC) Supreme Court Rules Cities May Enforce Laws Against Homeless Encampments (LA Times) Supreme Court Gives Cities More Power to Crack Down on Homeless Camps (CalMatters) Supreme Court posts get a Supremes song: here's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds.'

"The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the authority of executive agencies, sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer to the expertise of federal administrators in carrying out laws passed by Congress. The precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, is one of the most cited in American law. There have been 70 Supreme Court decisions relying on Chevron, along with 17,000 in the lower courts. The decision threatens regulations in countless areas, including the environment, health care and consumer safety." Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules (NYT; archive)

SCOTUSBlog on the likely effects. Elie Mystal: "Conservatives have now completed their generational goals of overturning Abortion, Affirmative Action, and Chevron. If y'all don't think Obergefell and gay marriage is next on the chopping block, you must read the New York Times."

Fred Rogers breaks the color barrier in a kiddie pool with Officer Clemmons in 1967. Fred Rogers Previously. The only known violation of Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Is Mister Rogers' Neighborhood the greatest television show ever made? by Emily St. James for AV Club. Segregation & Swimming Timeline in the United States. An episode of the podcast 5-4 discussing the Supreme Court case Palmer v. Thompson, in which the court decided that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the city of Jackson, Mississippi from avoiding integration by closing its public pools.