The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that whistleblower protections passed by Congress in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 apply only when those alleging corporate misdeeds bring their information to the government. None of the cases was among the most controversial the court has encountered, and only one — a technical case involving attorney fees for prisoners — split the court along its ideological divide. The Dodd-Frank Act has been widely criticized by President Trump, but the Department of Justice had urged the Supreme Court to take a broader view of who was covered by the act’s whistleblower protections. Other appeals courts read the law differently, which landed the issue at the Supreme Court. The law requires the former, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote in a decision, joined by the court’s other most consistent conservatives.

Source: Washington Post February 21, 2018 21:56 UTC