Supreme Court

As the Supreme Court gears up for a key ruling, the stakes couldn’t be higher for our farmers and manufacturers alike.

The U.S. Supreme Court had tough questions for the Administration about the legality of tariffs imposed on almost every U.S. trading partner by President Trump.

While a Waters of the United States Rule is in place, there may still be questions about the farm sector goes from here.   “We have a WOTUS rule in place. After a 2023 unanimous Supreme Court decision, the Biden administration had to kind of take their rule back to the drawing board and rewrite it to comply with this new WOTUS standard," said Mary-Thomas Hart chief counsel for the National Ca

Groups representing U.S. farmers have filed a brief encouraging the Supreme Court to hear a case on labeling for glyphosate and other pesticides.  The groups, which represent a broad swath of agriculture and cover over 300 million acres, argue that glyphosate is a “once-in-a-century” herbicide given its effectiveness at controlling an array of damaging weeds, affordability, and low toxicity.   How

Over the years, a string of U.S. Supreme Court cases have stated that no rancher’s livestock may “trespass” upon federally managed lands without authorization to graze.  Yet even in “fence-out” states, the courts have held that the federal government is not required to fence their property.   Despite there being a long lin...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decided to lift an injunction temporarily halting enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act’s reporting requirements.   On Thursday, the Court overturned a lower court order blocking enforcement of the CTA.  However, a sep...

NTCA, the Rural Broadband Association, said it is pleased that the Supreme Court announced it would review a decision from the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court regarding the federal Universal Service Fund.  Specifically, the nation’s highest court will look into the constitutionality of the mechanism for contributions to the Universal Service Fund.     “The...

On Thursday, Idaho Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo as well as West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined 47 of their Senate Republican colleagues in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden administration’s WOTUS rule.  Tha...

An attorney for the American Farm Bureau Federation said a lawsuit filed by the Bureau and other farm groups against the EPA’s final ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule is needed, on top of any favorable Supreme Court ruling.  Deputy General Counsel Travis Cushman says the latest WOTUS lawsuit is needed, not just because of a possible timing gap between the Biden EPA rule effective in March and a Supreme Co

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, American Farm Bureau Federation, and 16 other farm and builders’ groups are not waiting around for the Supreme Court to clarify the definition of WOTUS.  NCBA, AFBF, and others filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Biden EPA last week for its final WOTUS rule.   The NCBA’s C...