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Alameda County committee hears Washington update and summaries of three Supreme Court rulings
Summary
A county legislative staffer briefed the committee on FY25 appropriations activity in Congress and summarized three 6–3 U.S. Supreme Court decisions the transcript links to homelessness enforcement, Chevron deference, and presidential immunity; the committee took no votes.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors personnel, administration and legislative committee received a Washington update and summaries of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings at its July 1 meeting.
A county legislative staff speaker (identified in the transcript as Nick Moss) told the committee that House Appropriations subcommittees completed markups for FY25 spending bills in June and that the full House has approved several bills, with consideration expected to continue when Congress returns from recess. He said the Senate had not scheduled markups and that both chambers are likely to negotiate spending levels later in the session.
Moss summarized three Supreme Court decisions he said were released at the end of the term. On one, the transcript describes a 6–3 decision that overturned a Ninth Circuit ruling involving a Southern Oregon city’s anti-camping ordinances (referred in the transcript as "Grama Pass versus Johnson"). According to the staff summary, the decision gives local jurisdictions more authority to remove tent encampments and to enforce anti-camping ordinances when alternatives are not available. "Power to decide how to address homelessness largely rests with local officials," Moss said in the update.
Moss also summarized a 6–3 ruling that the transcript characterizes as overturning the Chevron doctrine, which previously led courts to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes. He said the change will likely shift interpretive questions to federal courts and could invite legal challenges to many established federal regulations. Finally, Moss summarized a 6–3 opinion (the transcript attributes the majority opinion to Chief Justice John Roberts) limiting the ability to prosecute former presidents for actions the Court deems part of the president’s core constitutional powers; Moss said the case returns factual questions about whether specific conduct was official to the lower courts.
There were no questions or votes related to the federal update. The committee chair also placed on the record that the California governor had signed the state budget on schedule. The committee adjourned without taking formal action on the federal or judicial items.
Sources: Remarks to the committee as recorded in the July 1 committee transcript.
