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Leaked memos reveal how Supreme Court steamrolled Obama climate plan in 2016 showdown
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The Supreme Court’s emergency order blocking former President Barack Obama’s signature clean energy initiative in 2016 came after a series of leaked internal memos among the justices that revealed a fight along ideological lines about whether to intervene.
The rare glimpse at the high court’s internal memos, obtained by the New York Times, showed Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, urging the Supreme Court to block Obama’s effort, while liberal justices pushed back.
Roberts and the court’s conservatives were concerned not just with Obama’s policy itself, but with the possibility that the Clean Power Plan could reshape the power sector before the justices could fully review whether it was lawful, the newly revealed memos show.
«Absent a stay, the Clean Power Plan will cause (and is causing) substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector before this court has an opportunity to review its legality,» Roberts wrote in one of the memos published by the New York Times on Friday.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court’s communications team Monday for comment on the leaks.
The push from Roberts came as the justices were considering what was viewed at the time as an unusual request on the emergency docket, sometimes called a «shadow docket,» from red states and outside groups to halt the Obama-era regulation, which aimed to cut carbon emissions over the next 25 years, before lower courts had fully weighed in, a step that the liberal justices warned would break from longstanding practice.
The emergency docket allows litigants to bypass typical court proceedings and seek immediate relief from the Supreme Court if lower courts block them through restraining orders or preliminary injunctions.
The Clean Power Plan would have involved the Obama Environmental Protection Agency regulating coal, oil and gas plants under the Clean Air Act. Roberts wrote that without the Supreme Court stepping in, «both the states and private industry will suffer irreparable harm from a rule that is — in my view — highly unlikely to survive.»
In another memo, Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, disagreed, saying «the unique nature of the relief sought in these applications gives me real pause.»
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Former President Barack Obama during a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, circulated a memo the same day as Kagan in which he agreed with Roberts.
«A failure to stay this rule threatens to render our ability to provide meaningful judicial review — and by extension, our institutional legitimacy — a nullity,» Alito wrote.
Within a matter of days, the justices temporarily blocked Obama’s Clean Power Plan 5-4 along ideological lines, effectively dealing it a death blow because Democrats would lose the White House later that year. The New York Times noted that the Obama White House dismissed the ruling at the time as a small hurdle but that «behind closed doors, officials were astonished that the court had intervened so quickly.»
The back-and-forth in the memos during the short period of time, from the end of January 2016 to Feb. 9, when the brief decision was issued, showed how fast the justices moved to weigh in on a major presidential action.
Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, wrote in an op-ed that the anonymous leak of the memos to the New York Times, the second leak of confidential material after the Dobbs opinion leak in 2022, was «clearly designed to wound some of its members.»
«For an institution that prides itself on its confidentiality and insularity, the court is looking increasingly porous and partisan in these leaks,» Turley wrote.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, on February 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. (JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The New York Times’ report highlighted that legal experts have long viewed the Clean Power Plan decision as one of the first examples of the Supreme Court using the emergency docket in a way that limits executive power over national policy.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has been among the most vocal dissenters in emergency cases during President Donald Trump’s second term as the president frequently benefits from the fast-paced docket. Jackson is sometimes joined by her two liberal colleagues, Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissents, and emergency cases have often split 6-3 in favor of Trump.
Last week, Jackson aired her grievances in a different forum, blasting emergency docket decisions during a Yale Law School speech as rushed, «scratch-paper musings» that undermine the high court’s purpose.
«Given the real world facts that a stay request asks the court to consider, the court’s stay decisions can, at times, come across utterly irrational,» Jackson said. «We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we consistently greenlight harmful acts.»
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Legal experts have attributed the heightened activity on the emergency docket to a rise in presidents attempting to shape national policy through through executive orders.
«[An increase in emergency motions] coincides with the rise of executive orders and other forms of unilateral executive action really as the primary form of lawmaking in our country with the disappearance of Congress, and that has posed enormous challenges for the court,» attorney Kannon Shanmugam said during a Federalist Society panel last fall.
Fox News Digital reached out to Obama’s office for comment.
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Crece la tensión en Bolivia: la Policía se volvió a enfrentar a los manifestantes para desbloquear las carreteras
Policías antimotines se enfrentaron este sábado en Bolivia con manifestantes para abrir carreteras y permitir el paso de alimentos, medicinas y combustibles a la ciudad de La Paz, bloqueadas desde hace tres semanas por protestas contra el gobierno.
Los agentes, que iniciaron el operativo a primera hora de la mañana, lanzaron gases lacrimógenos cuando grupos de manifestanbtes con hondas y petardos intentaron retomar puntos de bloqueo en la ciudad de El Alto (oeste), vecina a La Paz, y en la carretera hacia Oruro (sur), según imágenes de medios locales.
En El Alto, manifestantes mantienen al menos dos autopistas tomadas, y se retiraron de otra importante vía donde los vehículos pasan entre los escombros que dejaron, constató la agencia AFP.
Los efectivos avanzan lentamente con tractores para limpiar las piedras y bloques de cemento tirados en la ruta desde hace 18 días por los grupos que piden la renuncia del presidente Rodrigo Paz, que asumió el cargo hace seis meses.
El operativo denominado ‘Corredor humanitario con banderas blancas’ comenzó en la madrugada en la ciudad de El Alto, vecina de La Paz, que es la sede de un aeropuerto internacional y un punto central de conexiones con las carreteras hacia Chile y Perú donde hay centenares de camiones varados varios días.
Las fuerzas de seguridad se dirigen hacia la ciudad de Oruro, distante en 227 kilómetros, en alrededor de 150 vehículos, entre camiones, autobuses y tractores que avanzan poco a poco para despejar la ruta, aunque los manifestantes vuelven a reorganizarse apenas pasa la caravana, constató EFE.
El ministro de Obras Públicas, Mauricio Zamora, que encabeza la caravana, anunció su disposición a dialogar personalmente con los manifestantes en todos los puntos de bloqueo para pedir la suspensión de la medida.
“Diálogo ante todo y estamos trabajando en conjunto con nuestros policías y militares sin armas letales”, declaró Zamora, quien espera esta jornada una solución al conflicto para que “se pacifique el país”.
La operación busca facilitar la llegada de camiones con alimentos, sobre todo de carne, a las ciudades de La Paz y El Alto, donde los precios de todos los producto se han disparado en medio de la escasez.
Pero, además, pretende garantizar el transporte de camiones con oxígeno medicinal importado en cilindros desde Perú para su distribución en los hospitales estatales de ambas ciudades, y también de Oruro, después de que esta semana varios centros médicos suspendieran cirugías y racionaran ese insumo.
Desde Oruro, han partido centenares de militares y policías para hacer la ruta inversa con el objetivo de llegar a La Paz por el camino paralelo de vuelta.
El Gobierno ha destacado en esta ocasión el uso de banderas blancas para propiciar el diálogo con los manifestantes, quienes, no obstante, en algunos lugares atacaron con piedras a parte de la caravana y destruyeron los vidrios de un tractor, sin que eso interrumpiera el avance del convoy.
Los agentes usaron gases lacrimógenos para dispersar a esos grupos.
El pasado sábado, un operativo similar fracasó en su intento de despejar esa vía y solo pudo avanzar poco más de 50 kilómetros en su intento de llegar hacia Oruro.
Los manifestantes impidieron ese día la consolidación de ese corredor con protestas violentas en El Alto usando piedras y cargas de dinamita desatando enfrenamientos con los agentes.
Las protestas contra Paz están alentadas por campesinos aimaras del altiplano, la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) y seguidores del exmandatario Evo Morales (2006-2019) que exigen la renuncia del gobernante.
En los últimos días, los bloqueos de carreteras se extendieron a regiones como Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Potosí y Chuquisaca.
El Ejecutivo invitó a dialogar este domingo a los dirigentes de la Federación de Campesinos de La Paz ‘Tupac Katari’ para encontrar “soluciones a los problemas que son legítimos”, pero descarta la renuncia del presidente.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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Sanders-backed gubernatorial hopeful’s past pro-life views clash with current abortion stance
Speaker Johnson defends GOP as ‘vibrant’ party, says it’s in ‘great position’ to win midterms
House Speaker Mike Johnson, on ‘Fox News Sunday’, discusses the Louisiana primary results and President Donald Trump’s significant influence within the Republican party. Johnson outlines the GOP’s strategy for the upcoming midterms, emphasizing economic policies to address voter concerns. He also addresses the legal battle over abortion pills, calling the mailing of drugs «dangerous,» and defends the role of faith in public life.
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A Democratic gubernatorial hopeful in Maine, who is scheduled to campaign with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday and Monday, has been pitching himself to voters as a pro-choice candidate for governor, but his track record indicates that wasn’t always his stance.
As a state lawmaker, he received a 100% rating from the Maine Right to Life — a designation indicating a voting record wholly consistent with pro-life policies.
Jackson’s reversal demonstrates the fallout of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision that ended a constitutional right to an abortion and made the issue, previously a federal debate, a state-driven consideration.
In their 2022 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that no guarantee of a right to an abortion existed in the Constitution, meaning that individual states would have to decide on a case-by-case basis where to draw the line under what circumstances residents could legally end a pregnancy.
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Troy Jackson, who is running for Governor of Maine, speaks during a town hall about a Vision for a Healthy Society on May 20, 2026 in Portland, Maine. Jackson spoke about his plan for health care during the event. He is running to fill the seat currently held by Janet Mills. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Maine, with Jackson’s help, immediately passed expansions to abortion access, removing restrictions on late-term abortions.
The move prompted praise for Jackson from Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider.
«We applaud President Jackson and the 20 state senators and 76 representatives acting in the best interest of Mainers today,» Planned Parenthood wrote in a press release.
Just 10 years earlier, Jackson had voted for a bill in 2011 that would have affirmed personhood in the womb.
Two years later, in 2013, Jackson also voted to advance counseling requirements for women considering an abortion, providing them with second-opinion resources designed to explore alternatives to ending a pregnancy.
Both of those efforts failed.
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The Maine State Capitol is seen on May 18, 2026, in Augusta, Maine. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Even so, they garnered enough attention to put Jackson on the radar of abortion rights groups — and not in a good way.
In 2014, EMILY’s List, a pro-abortion group, launched a six-figure TV ad campaign against Jackson, according to local reporting.
«Politicians should not be involved in a woman’s personal medical decisions about her pregnancy. Period,» Emily Cain, Jackson’s primary opponent in 2014, told the Portland Press Herald.
As recently as October 2022, just four months after the Dobbs decision, Jackson told local reporters he was struggling with the issue.
Since declaring his candidacy for governor last May, Jackson seems to have left that struggle behind.
«The right to decide if and when to start a family is fundamental to our freedom and to who we are as Americans. It is a deeply personal decision that should not be made by politicians or justices,» Jackson said in a post to Instagram last year.
«On the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, I will continue to fight back against efforts to undermine abortion rights and stand up for reproductive freedom in Maine,» Jackson wrote.
Sanders, who has supported abortion and has run as a pro-choice candidate for decades, officially endorsed Jackson on Friday, calling him the governor «that working Mainers need.»
«Troy is different,» Sanders said. «Fighting for the working class of Maine is not something new for Troy. That’s what he has done for his entire life as a logger and as a member of the Maine state legislature. Troy knows what’s going on with the working class of Maine because he’s part of that working class.»
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Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to questions from a Fox News Digital reporter about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s resurfaced Reddit posts while walking through the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Troy has also been part of our progressive working class movement from the beginning,» he continued. «He has always stood with those of us who understand that health care is a human right, that workers deserve a living wage, and that we need a government that works for all-not just the ultra-wealthy and well-connected.»
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Notably, Jackson does not list abortion access as a top priority on his campaign website.
In Maine, there is no strict cutoff that prevents abortion at any point in a pregnancy, although some protections apply after viability, around the 24 to 26 week mark. Late-term abortions are permissible with the approval of a licensed physician.
Fox News Digital reached out to Sanders and Jackson’s campaign.
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LVIV, Ukraine: Exclusive — The same Iranian-designed Shahed drones that rain down Lviv in Ukraine nearly every night are now being hunted by weapons built just miles away — inside hidden factories where former students and office workers assemble kamikaze drones and interceptor systems around the clock.
What began as an improvised wartime effort has evolved into one of the world’s fastest-growing military drone industries — one Ukrainian official says Kyiv now leads NATO in battlefield innovation and can offer hard-won lessons for the U.S. and Israel as they confront the same Iranian drone technology across the Gulf.
«Drone technology completely changed the situation in the frontline,» Lviv Mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview, «Maybe in six months, maybe in one year, we will have technology to land 1,000 drones in one moment.
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Ukrainian-made drones were displayed at a military technology exhibition in an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. (Efrat Lachter/Fox News Digital.)
«If we will have more deep collaboration between Ukraine, the United States, Israel and Europe, we will prepare special equipment for our victory,» he said.
Dmytro, CEO of a Ukrainian drone manufacturer producing roughly 1,000 drones a week, told Fox News Digital, «We are three or four steps ahead of other countries…this is a new kind of war,» he said. «It is a war of IT technology.»
Cheap drones now allow small battlefield units to identify and destroy tanks, armored vehicles and even sophisticated air defense systems that once required expensive missiles or fighter aircraft.
That transformation is visible throughout western Ukraine, where defense technology hubs, secret workshops and testing facilities now operate, while in the cities air raid sirens regularly interrupt daily life.
Drone components and battlefield systems assembled at a Ukrainian manufacturing facility in an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. (Efrat Lachter/Fox News Digital)
Inside the workshop Fox News Digital visited, workers moved rapidly between tables stacked with propellers, fiber-optic cable and other classified drone components. The workers say they no longer see themselves as civilians temporarily helping the war effort. Many now view drone production as essential to Ukraine’s survival.
Vitaliy, one of the technicians assembling kamikaze drones destined for the front line, said he now builds hundreds of drone components a day. «Targets will be vehicles, tanks, troopers, positions,» he told Fox News Digital.
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A soldier launches an RQ-35 Heidrun drone used for reconnaissance and artillery fire correction in the Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on Feb. 22, 2026. (Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Referring to President Donald Trump’s statement that he will end the war, Vitaliy said, «I feel honored because I’m helping my country to get peace much faster,» Vitaliy added. «Peace through strength — this is our motivation. But it is mostly on us, for sure,» he said.
Ukraine’s domestic drone production has expanded at a staggering pace. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Serhiy Boev said earlier this year the country aims to produce more than seven million drones in 2026, up from roughly four million in 2025.
From AI-assisted battlefield systems to drones resistant to Russian electronic warfare, Ukraine’s wartime innovations are exposing vulnerabilities in traditional Western military doctrine.
At another defense technology hub in Lviv, rows of interceptor drones, unmanned ground vehicles and remotely operated weapons systems fill a showroom demonstrating Ukraine’s rapidly evolving battlefield ecosystem.
«We have around 250 tech companies in the system,» said Volodymyr Cherniuk, co-founder of Iron, a Ukrainian defense technology cluster.
Some drones are designed for reconnaissance. Others for evacuation, logistics or direct strike missions. One heavy-lift drone used for nighttime attacks has earned the nickname «Baba Yaga» from Russian troops, which Cherniuk translated as «boogeyman.»
Another interceptor drone is designed specifically to hunt Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia uses in nightly attacks on Ukrainian cities.
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«They can go 300 kilometers per hour,» Cherniuk said. «One hundred grams is enough to shut down a Shahed.»
«We have a lot of Americans, Canadians, Europeans who come here and want our data, feedback from the front line,» Dmytro said.
The remains of a Russian-made, Iran-designed Shahed-136 drone, known in Russia as a Geran-2, are displayed with other recovered drones, glide bombs, missiles and rockets in Kharkiv on July 30, 2025. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
As Fox News Digital reported from Lviv, air raid sirens repeatedly echoed across the city, a reminder that western Ukraine remains within reach of Russia’s expanding drone campaign.
Russia has dramatically escalated its aerial assaults in the recent week after the end of the short ceasefire, launching massive drone barrages targeting cities and logistical hubs across Ukraine, including areas near NATO territory close to the Polish border.
Ukraine has also increasingly demonstrated its ability to strike deep inside Russian territory with long-range drone attacks targeting areas around Moscow and Russian energy infrastructure.
But the evolving drone war has also increasingly spilled beyond Ukraine and Russia’s borders into NATO territory.
In recent weeks, drones linked to Ukrainian long-range strike operations entered the airspace of Baltic alliance members including Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, triggering political fallout and renewed concerns about regional air defenses. Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds resigned after drones crashed near fuel storage facilities close to the Russian border.
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A Russian plant assembling Iranian Shahed drones is targeted in a mass Ukrainian drone attack on Tatarstan (East2West)
Ukrainian and Baltic officials blamed Russian electronic warfare and GPS spoofing for redirecting the drones off course, arguing Moscow is increasingly using electronic warfare not only defensively, but also to create instability and political pressure inside NATO countries.
The incidents underscore how the same Iranian-designed Shahed drones Russia uses nightly against Ukrainian cities — and similar long-range drone technologies increasingly used by both sides — are reshaping modern warfare far beyond the battlefield itself.
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