When the Republicans appealed the three-day extension for counting ballots, the Supreme Court upheld the state decision on a 4-4 tie vote. It was a week before Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third appointee, won confirmation. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voted with the three liberals while four conservatives voted to grant the GOP appeal.

The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a long-simmering dispute between San Francisco and the E.P.A. over regulation of water pollution.

The court’s conservative justices grilled EPA over requirements included in a permit for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

The Supreme Court appeared ready in oral arguments Wednesday to restrict the EPA’s ability to set broad water quality standards for sewage and other systems as part of a challenge from San Francisco to the agency’s powers under the Clean Water Act.

Lawyers for San Francisco told the court it was "unfair and unworkable" to hold the city potentially liable for huge fines because of polluted water along Pacific beaches near the

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in an important environmental appeal – a case that at least some city leaders are desperately hoping to lose. That’s because the unusual case involving sewage discharges into the Pacific Ocean has put a city known for its uber-liberal politics in league with the oil and gas industries,

Liberal Supreme Court justices on Wednesday strongly criticized San Francisco‘s challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s authority to set generic limitations for wastewater discharges under the Clean Water Act.

One of the nation’s most liberal enclaves ran into pushback from the liberal wing of the Supreme Court on Wednesday as San Francisco battled the EPA over how the city’s wastewater spills into the Pacific Ocean.