Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

The Supreme Court issued two opinions on Tuesday ahead of its busy oral argument session on the Biden administration‘s student debt relief plan, repeating a pattern of non-traditional alliances among the justices in a small set of early rulings. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored her first-ever opinion in a dispute between Pennsylvania and Delaware…

The 6-3 Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court seemed leery on Tuesday about the legality of President Joe Biden‘s student debt relief plan but did not hold back on skepticism as to whether the challengers had the legal grounds to sue the administration. Biden’s plan, which has approved at least 16 million eligible borrowers to…

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, weighing in on Supreme Court arguments over the Biden administration’s massive student debt relief plan, argued some of the judiciary’s “finest moments” were when courts pushed back on presidential emergency powers. The Biden administration contends that the national emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic, along with the economic disturbance it created, justifies…

During Supreme Court oral arguments over the Biden administration‘s $400 billion student debt relief plan, Chief Justice John Roberts referred to the Trump administration “acting on its own” to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying, “We blocked that effort” in 2020. At stake on Tuesday are two cases challenging President Joe Biden’s…

After spending more than three decades behind bars for a murder he insists he didn’t commit, the only person standing between 65-year-old Crosley Green and prison is Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up Green’s appeal, and his conviction is expected to be reinstated. Green was granted house arrest…

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a case next term against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which could determine the fate of its authority to regulate banking and lending agencies through federal rules. In a brief, unsigned order, justices agreed to consider the constitutionality of how…

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and former Senate Judiciary chairmen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent letters to former leaders of President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court reform commission, requesting documents and communications from the now-defunct judiciary focus group. Biden formed the commission in April 2021 and was tasked to provide analysis for…

An upcoming Supreme Court fight over the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan could see the 6-3 conservative majority employ a similar doctrine that quashed the Obama administration’s landmark power plant emissions rule. President Joe Biden‘s plan intends to forgive as much as $20,000 in student debt for up to 16 million borrowers. However, some…

The Supreme Court released three opinions Wednesday in cases argued earlier this term, in which each case saw the three-member liberal minority joining the majority opinion in each decision. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, one of six Republican-appointed justices on the conservative-majority court, authored a 9-0 unanimous decision in a bankruptcy case known as Bartenwerfer v.…

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a strong dissent Tuesday after the 6-3 Republican-appointed majority of justices declined to consider ineffective counsel claims from a man facing a nearly 160-year prison sentence for several armed robberies. Jackson, whose arrival to the high court was championed by liberal advocates who praised her background as a…