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Supreme Court weakens Clean Water Act in major win for polluters

March 6, 2025 / U.S. News

The Supreme Court on Tuesday weakened federal protections against raw sewage discharge into water supplies, ruling 5-4 to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act. The court’s conservative majority decided that the EPA cannot impose broad, water quality-based limits on pollution permits and must instead set specific conditions for each […]

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Student Loan Debt Relief Explained

March 1, 2023 / Cheat Sheets

A brief look at student loans, Biden’s plan to forgive some student loan debt, and why Republicans oppose it.

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Conservative Supreme Court justices question Biden’s student loan relief

March 1, 2023 / Politics, Top Stories

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled skepticism over the legality of President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers, with the fate of his policy that fulfilled a campaign promise hanging in the balance.

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US Supreme Court begins arguments over Biden student debt relief

February 28, 2023 / Politics

The fate of President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers was placed in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the justices began hearing arguments in a case that presents another major test of executive branch authority.

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U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘major questions’ test may doom Biden student debt plan

February 27, 2023 / Politics

The finances of Hayes and millions of other Americans are in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments next Tuesday in appeals by President Joe Biden’s administration of lower court rulings blocking his plan announced last August to cancel $430 billion in student debt.

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How a family’s tragedy led to U.S. Supreme Court social media showdown

February 22, 2023 / U.S. News

The Gonzalez family finds itself at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court showdown over the scope of protections contained in federal law freeing social media platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users.

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Supreme Court Hears Case That Could ‘Upend’ The Internet

February 22, 2023 / Technology, Top Stories

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving YouTube and the family of an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in Paris.

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Senate passes same-sex marriage protection bill

November 30, 2022 / U.S. News

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn a 2015 decision that legalized it nationwide. The narrowly tailored bill, which would require the federal government to recognize a marriage if it was legal in

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9 Cases The Supreme Court Will Hear This Fall

October 1, 2022 / U.S. News

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opens a new nine-month term, loaded with important cases on issues including race, voting rights, religious liberty, environmental regulation, the power of federal agencies and even Andy Warhol paintings. Here is a look at some of the cases that the justices are due to hear during the term. 1.

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