Good evening. I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight. The

U.S. Supreme Court issues major decisions on obstruction charges against January 6th rioters, federal regulatory

power, and homelessness.

Analysis of key moments and the fallout from last night's presidential debate.

And David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins store break down the latest political headlines. 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 the 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 consider here?

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

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

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