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outstanding supreme court decisions. joining me now to talk about all of them as we wait for them to come down, cnn chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin. i want to start on a case that is so consequential. explain this for the power of the administrative state and the executive branch to delegate its power. >> congress passes laws. i think everybody knows that. but laws are generally phrased in fairly general terms. and we have administrative agencies that translate those laws into rules that individuals and companies must follow. the question in the west...

more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. let's start with cnn's jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. >> reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restricting the epa's power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. and at the same time the sup...

Priscilla alvarez for us in hid dal go, texas. i want to bring you in on this decision on biden versus texas a win for the biden administration, but on a smaller scale than what we're seeing with this epa decision. >> there's a threat here, poppy, that we've seen through some of the cases this term where the justices have been reluctant to tell an administration that they can't change policy. so we have a trump-era policy. biden wants to shift gears and do something different and people are saying, no, wait a minute, let's find a statutory reason they can't do it. the justices do a statutory i...

Can't do in terms of regulating on climate change and then we'll talk about the administrative state. jess? >> reporter: it's interesting because the chief justice in writing this opinion, one thing he said was that, you know, it seems a sensible solution that the epa might try to regulate coal emissions. however, even though he recognizes that it's a pressing issue for the epa, this court then saying it is not plausible that congress gave epa the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme, a decision of such mandatignitudes with congress. something that this conservative majority ...

That congress would have to delegate power to an agency on any decision of vast economic and political significance very specifically, very clearly in its language. otherwise it will be able to be challenged on a major questions doctrine ground, which this court made clear will uphold. >> we in congress are to set the following limits. i mean, that's pretty specific. folks at home might say that doesn't sound like a big deal. fine. multiple that by the thousands and thousands of agencies setting thousands and thousands of different rules on the ground for every single facet of our bureaucratic...