Welcome to the news hour. With just one day left in its term, the US Supreme Court

issued a trio of major decisions today. The justices upheld a law making it a

crime for unhoused people to camp in public areas like parks,

sidewalks and plazas.

They narrowed the scope of a law being used to prosecute the January 6th rioters and weakened the rulemaking powers of regulatory agencies.

PBS News Weekend anchor John Yang reports on the Supreme Court for us.

He's here now to break it all down.

John, good to see you.

Good to see you. So let's start with the case of

Joseph Fisher this is a man charged with seven counts after storming the

capital on January 6th. What aspects of his case did the justice is

considered here?

Well, Fisher challenged just one charge that was against him, that was obstructing an official

proceeding.

Because of the way the law is written, his argument was it had to involve an actual document, a piece of evidence.

Now the justices agreed that it didn't cover storming the Capitol and or confronting police officers inside the Capitol.

Chief Justice John Roberts said in the majority opinion that the way the Justice Department

is using the law criminalizes a broad swath of prosaic conduct exposing activists and lobbyists to

decades in prison.

It was a six to three decision, but not ideological.

Katanji Brown Jackson was in the majority and Amy Koney Barrett wrote the dissent.

She said the majority did textual backflips to reach their conclusion.

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