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Biden announces another $5B in student loan forgiveness after Supreme Court defeat

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced Friday that he will use existing government programs to forgive an additional $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 people. It continues its phased approach to amortization after the Supreme Court last year struck down a sweeping plan to forgive $430 billion in student loans. university debt. The latest […]

Hundreds of top GOP lawmakers urge Supreme Court to keep Trump on the ballot

Nearly 200 Republicans in Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have signed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to keep former President Donald Trump on the 2024 ballot. . The high court will hear oral arguments on February 8 in a challenge to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling […]

MT Supreme Court upholds ruling favoring youth plaintiffs in climate lawsuit

The Montana Supreme Court has rejected Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte's attempt to block a landmark climate change ruling in the state. The justices upheld a district court judge's August ruling that fossil fuel development permits should only be issued after taking carbon emissions into account. The decision came in a lawsuit brought by 16 young […]

Supreme Court signals it will claw back federal agency power

Conservatives on the Supreme Court appear inclined to reduce the regulatory power of federal agencies, with several justices in two arguments Wednesday poised to overturn legal doctrine that has strengthened agencies' powers for decades. It seems like there is. 3 or more After hours of arguments, the justices decided that top Biden administration officials sought […]

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chutich announces retirement

Justice Margaret Tutich, the first openly gay justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, has announced her retirement. Her resignation leaves Democratic Gov. Tim Walz with two needed positions on the high court. Mr. Tutich was appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 2012, and to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2016, before being elected […]

Vos threatens to take Wisconsin redistricting case to Supreme Court

Wisconsin Republican Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday denounced Democratic proposals to redraw congressional maps as “political gerrymandering” and threatened to appeal the controversial redistricting case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The submitted map is currently being revised by the liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court. “My hope is that the court, based on a fair interpretation, will […]

Supreme Court declines to hear Indiana school’s appeal on transgender bathroom order

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an Indiana public school district defending single-sex restrooms. The Supreme Court has rejected the Martinsville Metropolitan School District's appeal of a lower court's ruling that barring transgender students from using the bathroom of the gender they identify with violates students' constitutional rights and federal anti-discrimination laws. However, […]