Student loan borrowers are anxiously awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision on whether President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will stand, and the ruling could drop as early as Today. The high court is currently weighing whether the Biden administration can move forward with its contested plan to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loan […]
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Trump Remains Oddly Silent On Abortion During Latest Rally
Former President Donald Trump made only passing, indirect references to abortion Friday night at his first rally since a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade sent Democrats and Republicans scrambling to fine tune their messaging on the issue ahead of the midterms. In a roughly 80-minute speech outside Pittsburgh to […]
Supreme Court Seems Eager To Uphold Limits On Abortion
A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared poised to consider setting new limits on the right to abortion during oral arguments Wednesday over a Mississippi law that takes direct aim at the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. The Mississippi law at issue, which bans virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, conflicts […]
Will The Supreme Court Protect The 2nd Amendment?
The Supreme Court seemed wary of a New York law that strictly limits the carrying of guns outside the home during arguments Wednesday in the first major Second Amendment clash in more than a decade. The conservative majority court posed sharp questions about the constitutionality of the New York regulation, which gives government officials broad […]
Supreme Court To Hear Major Second Amendment Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is due to hand down a major ruling on American’s Second Amendment rights. The court recently announced it will hear a case soon, which could potentially increase the number of people able to carry a gun in public. According to gun rights advocates, a favorable ruling by the Supreme Court would […]
Supreme Court Sides With Police On Multiple Cases
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with law enforcement in a pair of cases that implicated “qualified immunity,” the controversial legal doctrine that gives police broad protection from lawsuits. In a pair of unsigned summary rulings issued without noted dissent, the justices reversed two federal appeals courts that had permitted excessive force lawsuits to proceed […]
Supreme Court Asked To Hear Vaccine Mandate Case
A group of New York City public school teachers who refuse COVID-19 inoculation have asked the Supreme Court to block a vaccine mandate set to take effect Friday. The teachers, who expressed various reasons for refusing to vaccinate, are united in their view that New York City’s public health measure runs afoul of the law. […]
Supreme Court Refuses To Block Texas Abortion Law
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday night refused to block a Texas law that bans most abortions, leaving the country’s most restrictive abortion measure intact. Just before midnight, the court denied an emergency request from abortion providers to block the law, issuing a 5-4 ruling with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court’s three […]
Tax Dollars To Fund Abortions?
Congress has blocked federal dollars from paying for abortion coverage for decades now. But that could change if pro-choice Democrats have their way. It’s not a surprise that money dictates policy in Washington. Want to understand how a given lawmaker or presidential administration feels about a particular issue? Look to how much money – or […]
Transgender Bathroom Access Upheld By Supreme Court Refusing Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court’s ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully in preventing a transgender student from using a bathroom at his high school that corresponded with his gender identity. The justices opted not to hear […]
Supreme Court Allows Foster Care To Block Same Sex Couples
The Supreme Court sided unanimously with a Catholic foster agency in a dispute against the city of Philadelphia over whether it should be banned from participating in the city’s foster program because it excludes same-sex couples. The group, Catholic Social Services (CSS), claimed that “Philadelphia’s attempts to exclude the Catholic Church from foster care” violated […]
Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Drug Offenders Behind Bars
The Supreme Court’s decision restricting the use of a landmark 2018 drug reform law landed like an anvil Monday morning at the Decarceration Collective, a Chicago law firm that seeks to free people serving life sentences for federal drug crimes. The unanimous ruling said the law — which has been used to cut the sentences […]