US Supreme Court Rejects Alabama Challenge to Racial Redistricting
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday once again upheld a lower court decision mandating that the southern state of Alabama create a second congressional...
US Supreme Court Asked to Decide if High School Admissions Policy Discriminates Against Asian Americans
Parents filed a petition on Monday asking the US Supreme Court to decide whether an elite public high school, known as the Thomas Jefferson High School...
Senate Judiciary Panel to Consider Ethics Rules for Supreme Court
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent...
What Will Biden’s New Plan Mean for Borrowers Set to Begin Paying Back Their Student Loans?
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively kill Biden’s earlier student debt forgiveness proposal, the White House is trying again to ease the burden...
Jackson Leads Dissent to Supreme Court Decision Ending Affirmative Action
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent led a cacophony of outcry from lawmakers, civil rights groups, K-12 and higher education advocates against a historic Supreme Court...
Supreme Court Sides with Business Owner in Clash Over Free Speech, LGBTQ+ Rights
In a 6-3 decision, the justices held that compelling a business owner to create designs ‘speaking messages with which the designer disagrees’ violates the...
Justice Jackson Marks Her First Year on the Supreme Court Unafraid to Stake Her Own Position
As the first Black woman to serve on the court, she brought a new perspective and spoke the most during oral arguments. When the...
Biden to Colleges: Use Diversity in Your Admissions Decisions Anyway
The president excoriated the court’s conservative justices and proposed new admission standards for colleges and universities to adopt after the Supreme Court rolled back...
Why Biden’s Student Debt Plan Never Took Off
Even before the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s student debt relief plan, it was a big ask of Republicans – and even some Democrats...
Biden Acts Fast on Affirmative Action, Student Loan Debt After Being Caught Flat-Footed on Abortion
Twice this week the president presented workaround plans within hours of Supreme Court decisions that went against him. It’s a learned response from the...