Nearly $5 billion in additional student loan forgiveness approved
This latest $4.8 billion in relief brings the grand total of approved debt cancellation by the administration to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans.
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This latest $4.8 billion in relief brings the grand total of approved debt cancellation by the administration to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans.
Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and she retired in 2006.
The new code of conduct was signed by all nine Supreme Court justices, but it's unclear how it will be enforced.
The case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Rahimi, puts a 30-year-old federal gun law designed to protect survivors of domestic violence in the spotlight.
The case before the Supreme Court involves a gun law enacted by Congress nearly 30 years ago that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms.
The Supreme Court convenes Monday for a new term that brings cases on free speech, agency power and the Second Amendment.
Donald Trump is facing political blowback from within his party for his comments about abortion.
In 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe to solely operate sports wagering in the state, but it was challenged in court.
In 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe to solely operate sports wagering in the state, but the compact was quickly challenged in court. Now, a federal court decided not to rehear the cases, handing the Seminoles the victory and the case is expected to officially be dismissed Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Sept. 26 to discuss whether it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a 2021 Florida law that placed restrictions on major social-media companies.
An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer said they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review Chauvin's second-degree murder conviction.
Some constitutional scholars say the Supreme Court's exemption for military academies undercuts the argument for rejecting race-conscious admissions.
"We'll use every tool at our disposal to get you the student debt relief you need to reach your dreams," President Biden said.
Calls for the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act to continue loan forgiveness were made after the Supreme Court struck down his plan for student debt relief.
Borrowers are now facing double whammy after high court rules against Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program.
Students, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, must be evaluated based on their experiences "as an individual — not on the basis of race."
In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right.
A Florida bill allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions now has the governor's signature, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning capital punishment in such cases.
The decision from the Supreme Court blocks lower court orders that would have restricted the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.
Democrats said the findings underscore the need for a written code of conduct for Supreme Court justices, who are not covered by binding ethics rules.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was honored Monday with a street renaming ceremony in the same community that she grew up in.
There were no noted dissents.
One of the cases involves Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Paris in the 2015 ISIS attacks.
To date, 13 states have passed so-called trigger laws that were designed to outlaw most abortions if the high court threw out the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
The Supreme Court overturned the decades-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, allowing states to determine abortion access.
