Supreme Court

The Biden administration has approved more than 16 million people for student loan forgiveness, but whether they see the relief will depend on the Supreme Court's decision. The nine justices will hear oral arguments over the policy Feb. 28. Here's a state-by-state breakdown of where those borrowers live. The U.S....

The ex-DHS secretary provided services to the Supreme Court before he was tasked with independently reviewing the leak investigation, CNN reported.

New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s recent piece about the sham investigation the Supreme Court did to try to find out who leaked the draft of the Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, was shocking. But then again, it came as no surprise. While the underlings working in the...

"We are not deliberating or considering any other kind of alternative approach," a White House official told reporters on student-debt cancellation.

John Eastman, the former Donald Trump lawyer and possible future Trump co-defendant, has added the potential loss of his California law license to his list of troubles. If the state plucks Eastman’s license, that could put the former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk’s Supreme Court bar membership in further jeopardy as well. As it happens, on the subject of fringe election efforts, he’s lead counsel on a Supreme Court amicus brief — meaning a brief filed by an outside party not directly involved in the case — supporting North Carolina Republicans and the so-called independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Supreme Court found one mandatory minimum sentence for a firearm offence unconstitutional and upheld two others in a pair of decisions published on Friday. Two of the three cases at issue used hypothetical scenarios that defence counsel argued could render these mandatory minimums unconstitutional because they...

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh praised his new colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as someone who is "thoroughly prepared" and has "hit the ground running."

The Illinois attorney general’s office filed its opening argument with the state’s highest court as it seeks to overturn a judge’s ruling that found parts of the controversial SAFE-T Act unconstitutional, including the elimination of cash bail.

The Supreme Court failed to disclose its long-standing financial arrangements with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who independently validated the nine-month investigation into the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Last week, in tandem with Chertoff's oversight, the high court said it has so far failed to identify...

Challengers to the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan submitted their written arguments to the Supreme Court on Friday, contending the administration overstepped its authority. In their separate briefs, six Republican-led states and two individual loan borrowers who did not qualify for the relief argued the administration should not be allowed to forgive up to…

Before the release of a report on the investigation into who at the Supreme Court was responsible for leaking the Dobbs draft ruling, that for all intents and appearances gutted Roe v. Wade, an outside expert was brought in to validate its findings and now there are questions about that review.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court defending the part of a SAFE-T Act that a Kankakee County judge previously ruled the law as unconstitutional. The Attorney General filed it in Court Thursday, arguing that cash bail is not in...

TALLAHASSEE — A potential class-action lawsuit has gone to the Florida Supreme Court in a dispute about whether the University of Florida should return fees to students because of a campus shutdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorneys for UF graduate student Anthony Rojas filed a notice this week...

The Supreme Court of Greece discussed on Thursday a disagreement between funds and banks on one hand and defaulted-loan borrowers on the other, over the legal framework and the rights of the latter. Discussion focused on two conflicting laws (3156/2003 and 4354/2015) specifically relating to whether funds that acquired loans...

It seems as if the American public has once again arrived at the intersection of Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg. Yet this time, the figure with sticky fingers who leaked the Supreme Court abortion draft opinion last May remains ominously faceless and nameless. Last Thursday, the Supreme Court failed to...