Topline The Supreme Court’s conservative justices questioned the legality of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program Tuesday, as the court heard arguments in two cases from plaintiffs s...
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Student Debt Snafu Shows The Danger Of Blending Public Good And Profit
LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 23: A student walks near Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 … [+] in Los Angeles, California. According to reports, half of recent college graduates...
Why The Supreme Court Could Save Big Tech By Recommending Regulation Over Prohibition In Key Free Speech Case
Supreme Court (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Powerful forces want to change the way the internet works, and it could have profound implications for big tech. This is what invest...
Student Debt Forgiveness At Supreme Court Tuesday—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in two cases that will determine whether President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness can go back into effect, with millions of Americans’ ...
The Supreme Court’s Google Case Has Free Speech On The Line
Seattle, USA – Aug 19, 2019 Getty Key Takeaways Google is being brought before the Supreme Court in a case that could upend Big Tech’s immunity from its content moderation approach There are sup...
Supreme Court To Decide If IRS Can Secretly Access Bank Records
Fresh off a new injection of $45 billion to ramp up its enforcement efforts, the IRS is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to allow its agents to secretly obtain financial records, without ever notifyi...
Should YouTube, Twitter Be More Responsible For Dangerous Content? Supreme Court Considers Tech Critics
Topline The Supreme Court considers how responsible major social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, especially—are for their most dangerous posts, challenging broad protections that tech comp...
Supreme Court Justices Reportedly Can’t Figure Out How To Adopt Ethics Code Amid Controversies
Topline The Supreme Court has been actively discussing adopting a code of conduct for at least four years but so far can’t agree on how to do it—and it’s unclear when they will—the Washington Post rep...
Why To Invest Regardless Of The Supreme Court Decision On Student Loan Debt Relief
Getty Images Key takeaways The Biden Administration’s student loan debt relief plan will debut before the Supreme Court on February 28 Two lawsuits against the plan argue that the Biden Administration...
Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns
Topline The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing scrutiny for potential conflict of interests after a former colleague warned the Justice Department and Congress about her role a...
Supreme Court Urged To Enforce The Thirteenth Amendment’s Ban On Involuntary Servitude
In a rare legal filing, a group of Filipino nurses is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment, which famously abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. Simply for quit...
Supreme Court Lets The IRS Evade The Eighth Amendment, Only Gorsuch Dissents
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of Monica Toth, an 82-year-old grandmother who was fined over $2 million by the IRS for failing to file a one-page form. Represented by the I...
Supreme Court To Decide If “Home Equity Theft” Is Unconstitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old widow who had her entire home’s equity confiscated after she failed to pay $2,300 in property taxes. Although the case ...
Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary ‘Justice’ Debuts At Sundance: Here’s What To Know
Topline Filmmaker Doug Liman’s documentary on the controversial appointment and sexual assault claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—kept quiet before it’s surprise premiere at the Sund...
Supreme Court Says It Still Can’t Figure Out Who Leaked Abortion Opinion
Topline The Supreme Court issued a report Thursday on its investigation into who leaked a draft of its historic opinion overturning Roe v. Wade last year, saying it had not yet identified the person r...
WOTUS Surfs The Tide Of Changing Administrations And Lawsuits
POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS – the U.S. government loves a memorable acronym. WOTUS, though, may fly under the radar most of the time for much of the general populace. Short for Waters of the United States, ...
Supreme Court’s Probe Into Leaked Roe V. Wade Opinion Narrows To “Small Number”
Topline Supreme Court investigators reportedly narrowed their investigation into the monumental leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion in favor of overturning Roe V. Wade last May, whic...
Proposed Draft Of Supreme Court Opinion On Andy Warhol’s Painting Of Prince
Andy Warhol Getty Images For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court has taken up the challenge of adding clarity to the “fair use” defense to a copyright infringement claim. The p...
Jeff Ross Roast At Center Of Supreme Court Dearth Penalty Appeal
LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 14: Jeff Ross attends the Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis on July 14, … [+] 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/WireImage) WireImage Comedi...
Year-End Expert Advice On Student Loan Forgiveness
President Joe Biden, speaking about student loan relief at Delaware State University in October. The Supreme Court will hear challenges in February to his plan to forgive up to $20,000 for some borrow...
Last-Minute Addition To Sweeping Defense Bill Will Shield Judges’ Families’ Information — Including Ginni Thomas’ Activism
Topline The House is set to pass a new set of protections for federal judges’ families Thursday that were added at the last-minute to the sweeping defense bill, including shielding the public from kno...
Supreme Court Questions GOP-Led Case That Could Upend U.S. Elections
Topline The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over the question of whether state legislatures should have unfettered power to determine election rules, with even some conservative justices signaling th...
Biden Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Second Lawsuit — Here’s When A Decision Could Come
Topline The Biden Administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to take up a second case challenging the White House’s student loan forgiveness policy—a move that won’t result in student debt relief b...
Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments On Biden’s Stalled Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Topline The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, the court announced Thursday, which means a final decision on the program’...
The Limits Of Free Speech
Twitter AFP via Getty Images For those that might care about the limits of free speech (e.g., perhaps someone owning Twitter), this article provides a summary of speech (written or oral) that can trig...
House Committee Receives 6 Years Of Trump Tax Returns
Topline The House Ways and Means Committee has received six years of former President Donald Trump’s federal income tax returns, one week after the Supreme Court denied Trump’s request to block his ta...
Senate Passes Same-Sex Marriage Protection Bill In Bipartisan Vote
Topline The U.S. Senate passed a bill granting new federal protections for same-sex marriages Tuesday afternoon, sending the bill to the House after a 61-36 bipartisan vote, fulfilling a promise by De...
Some GOP Counties Want To Hand-Count All Ballots—But Judges Say That’s Illegal
Topline A judge on Monday blocked a rural Arizona county from moving forward with a plan by Republican officials to hand-count every ballot cast in Tuesday’s midterm, shutting down the latest attempt ...
Babylon Bee Files Real Supreme Court Brief Defending The First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Cops
Anthony Novak was thrown in jail and charged with a felony for mocking an Ohio police department with a parody Facebook page. Now represented by the Institute for Justice, Novak has filed a cert petit...
New NCAA NIL Clarifications Expose College Athletes To Risk By Removing Schools From The Process
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – MARCH 21: The NCAA logo is seen on the basket stanchion before the game … [+] between the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles and the Florida Gators in the second round game...