Three 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued in 2024 may over time substantially constrain federal agencies’ regulatory authority. The incoming Trump Administration may wish to rely on those holdings in implementing its regulatory reform strategy.

Alleging Idaho’s long-critiqued public defense system has worsened despite the state’s reform effort, the ACLU of Idaho asked the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene. Following the ACLU of Idaho’s 2015 lawsuit that alleged Idaho’s public defense system violated low-income people’s right to counsel guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment of the U.

The ACLU of Idaho said the state’s new public defense system is leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of indigent defendants without lawyers, violating their constitutional rights.

The ACLU of Idaho is seeking the release of defendants lacking legal representation amid turmoil in the state’s public defense system.