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West Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow enforcement of school transgender sports ban
Newsbreak 2 weeks ago in Around The World, Court Battles, News, Patrick Morrisey, Regulation, Supreme Court, transgender, transgender athletes 0 West Virginia has asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action so the state can enforce its law banning transgender women from competing on female school sports teams, the state attorney general’s office said. A divided federal appeals court last month blocked enforcement of the law as the panel hears a challenge to it in full. A spokesman for West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey…
Supreme Court affirms Ruffai Hanga as Kano Central Senator-elect, removes Shekarau
The Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja affirmed Malam Rufai Hanga as the Senator-elect for Kano Central Senatorial District of Kano State under the platform of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP. The apex court kicked out a former Kano State Governor and former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau as the candidate of the NNPP in the February 25 National Assembly election. Delivering judgment in…
Why a sweeping election law clash at the Supreme Court could disappear
Newsbreak 2 weeks ago in Around The World, Court Battles, Gerrymandering, North Carolina, Supreme Court 0 The Supreme Court looks increasingly likely to sidestep a clash over an election law that has weighty stakes for gerrymandering and setting election rules. The justices were headed toward a decision by June in the closely watched appeal from North Carolina Republican lawmakers, who are advancing a sweeping legal theory that would hand near-total authority to state legislatures in regulating federal elections. But legal experts…
Florida street named after Ketanji Brown Jackson: ‘This is where I got my start’
Newsbreak 2 weeks ago in Around The World, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Miami, State Watch, Supreme Court 0 Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at a ceremony Monday celebrating the renaming of a street in her home of Miami-Dade County in her honor, according to multiple reports. During the Monday ceremony, Brown reflected on the road she took to becoming the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. “I hope that this street naming will also serve as a testament to…
Supreme Court Affirms Waya As Benue APGA Guber Candidate
March 06, (THEWILL) – The Supreme Court on Monday, in Abuja, affirmed the candidature of Mr Joseph Waya, as the duly elected governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for Benue State governorship elections. In its unanimous ruling read by Justice C.C Nweze, the panel of five judges said the Appeal Court had […] The post Supreme Court Affirms Waya As Benue APGA…
What Biden might try next if his student loan forgiveness plan is struck down
The Biden White House has been reluctant to talk about alternatives to its student loan relief plan for fear of undermining its case now before the Supreme Court, but should the justices strike down the proposal, they do have some options. Lawyers for the administration made their case to save President Biden’s student debt forgiveness before the justices on Tuesday, but with the plan at…
When can student loan borrowers expect the repayment pause to end?
Student loan borrowers are left in limbo on the exact date for when they will have to begin repayments after a three-year pause from the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two cases contesting President Biden’s student loan relief program that could give up to $20,000 of relief to millions of Americans. The justices are now able to release a…
The Supreme Court may shut down student loan forgiveness — and refinancing startups are waiting to pounce
Newsbreak 3 weeks ago in Advertising, Around The World, Biden, Congress, Debt, Discourse, discourse-freelance, Economy, Education, Finance, Insider Illustration, Interest Rates, News, Politics, Public Student Loan Forgiveness, Refinance, Sallie Mae, Student Debt, student loan forgiveness, Student Loans, Supreme Court, Thomas Gokey 0 Student loan refinancing companies like SoFi, Lendkey, and Navient offer big savings. But they also come with a big cost. Liam Eisenberg for Insider It’s an incredible feeling to finally become free of student debt, to feel the financial weight lifted off your shoulders after years of worrying about making payments. I’ve gotten to see this joy over the past year by helping people apply…
Naira swap: 10 states ask Supreme Court to set aside Buhari’s directives
(*10*) General of 10 states have filed a go well with asking the Supreme Court to set aside President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives on the naira coverage. The state governments in Suit No SC/CV/162/2023, filed on Friday by their counsel, A.J. Owonikoko (SAN), requested the apex courtroom to declare the President’s directives unconstitutional. The president had, throughout his nationwide broadcast on Thursday, declared that the old…
New naira notes: Another Northern State drags FG to Supreme Court
The Niger State Government on Saturday revealed that it had filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government of Nigeria over the naira redesign coverage of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the Supreme Court. This was disclosed in a press release by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Justice Nasara Danmallam, in Minna. According to Danmallam, the case with go well with…
Calls grow for stronger ethics rules for Supreme Court justices, families
Newsbreak 1 month ago in Around The World, Clarence Thomas, Court Battles, Ginni Thomas, John Roberts, Regulation, Supreme Court 0 Growing scrutiny of the spouses of Supreme Court justices is now elevating calls for more stringent ethics rules governing the judges and their families. The newest instance of a judicial partner profitable undesirable consideration is Jane Roberts, who’s married to Chief Justice John Roberts. A former colleague focused Roberts in an ethics complaint that surfaced late last month, saying her authorized recruiting work concerned corporations with enterprise…
Lax security practices ‘going on for years’ at Supreme Court before leak: report
Lax security measures have been “going on for years” at the Supreme Court, courting back to effectively before the May leak of the courtroom’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade, CNN reported Saturday. Sources aware of the courtroom’s operations, together with former workers, told CNN that the practices have included justices utilizing private e mail accounts to…
Supreme Court dismisses APC’s suit against PDP on House of Reps ticket tussle
The Supreme Court has dismissed an attraction instituted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ahiazu Mbaise Ezinihitte Federal Constituency of Imo State. The Apex Court on Friday threw out the attraction on the bottom that APC has no authorized proper to dabble in the candidate choice course of of the PDP. In a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel…
Ethics concerns raised over business ties of Supreme Court chief justice’s wife
Newsbreak 2 months ago in Around The World, Court Battles, Jane Roberts, John Roberts, Regulation, Supreme Court 0 A former colleague of Chief Justice John Roberts’s wife raised ethics concerns last month about how the Supreme Court’s business intersects along with her recruiting work, in line with paperwork obtained by The Hill. Kendal Price — who beforehand labored with Jane Roberts at Major, Lindsey & Africa — alleged the chief justice might have violated recusal and monetary disclosure guidelines for judges in a…
Trump rips the Supreme Court as ‘nothing more than a political physique’ after they ruled against him, even though he...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Congress, Donald Trump, News, Politics, Supreme Court, Taxes 0 US President Donald Trump greets US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (R) following his State of the Union deal with at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the approach for Trump’s taxes to be launched to Congress. Trump on Wednesday lashed out at the courtroom in a sequence…
BREAKING: Supreme Court orders retrial of Ogun PDP governorship legal battle
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Breaking, News, Ogun PDP, Politics, Supreme Court, Top Headlines 0 The Supreme Court on Monday in Abuja ordered that the legal motion which arose on the conduct of the first election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the nomination of the governorship candidate in Ogun State be retried by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Ibrahim Saulawa in a judgment delivered held that it was flawed of the Federal High Court in Abuja…
The Senate Judiciary Committee will review reports that Alito’s Hobby Lobby decision was leaked to an anti-abortion chief: ‘one other...
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times through Getty Images Anti-abortion leaders knew a couple of 2014 Supreme Court decision earlier than it was official, NYT reported. Alito’s Hobby Lobby decision on contraception can be the second of two recognized leaks from the courtroom. The Senate Judiciary Committee will examine the…
One day after asking the Supreme Court to save its student-loan forgiveness plan, the Biden administration started notifying applicants they’ve...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Biden administration, News, Politics, Student debt relief, student loan, Supreme Court 0 Students urge President Joe Biden to cancel pupil debt. Getty Images The Biden administration started notifying applicants who’ve been approved for student-loan aid. The notifications got here after the administration requested the Supreme Court to save its debt aid plan. The decrease court docket beforehand halted the program from taking impact. One day after asking the Supreme Court to save its student-loan forgiveness plan, the…
A former anti-abortion leader says he was told the decision of the landmark 2014 Hobby Lobby contraception case weeks before...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Affordable Care Act, Around The World, Birth Control, Contraception, Contraceptives, Health Insurance, Hobby Lobby, John Roberts, Law, News, Politics, Rob Schenck, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court 0 The Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky An anti-abortion leader mentioned he was told of the Supreme Court’s 2014 Hobby Lobby ruling upfront, per The New York Times. Rob Schenck recommended that two donors have been told the end result at a dinner with Justice Samuel Alito. Alito has denied the allegations, which come after the leak of the Dobbs draft opinion…
Biden’s administration just asked the Supreme Court to reinstate its student-loan forgiveness plan to ‘keep away from prolonging this uncertainty...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Biden, Economy, Education Department, Justice Department, Lawsuits, News, Politics, Student Debt, student loan forgiveness, Student Loans, Supreme Court 0 US President Joe Biden. Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Biden administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to revive its student-debt aid plan. It comes after a decrease federal courtroom dominated on Monday to preserve the aid paused. Biden additionally appealed one other ruling from a Texas federal Judge who blocked the aid final week. President Joe Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan as soon as once more…
Live Results: Voters in 5 states had abortion access on the poll. Here’s where it’s successful.
Newsbreak 4 months ago in 2022 elections, 2022 midterms, Abortion, Around The World, California, DDHQ, ecm-election-22, INSIDER Data, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, News, Politics, politics enterprise, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Vermont 0 Kaye Aries (L) and daughter Robyn Victor, 6, have a look at each other as brother Kaleb Victor, 12, additionally participates in the Women’s March Action Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles, California, on October 8, 2022. DAVID MCNEW/AFP by way of Getty Images; Insider Midterm voters signaled overwhelming assist for abortion rights. Five states had abortion-related initiatives on their poll. …
Stay of execution: Nnamdi Kanu to approach Supreme Court
Tribune Online Stay of execution: Nnamdi Kanu to approach Supreme Court Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is to approach the Supreme Court over the keep of execution order by the Federal Government following the Court of Appeal judgement releasing him from detention. Kanu’s lawyer, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, in an announcement to the media, Monday, mentioned he has requested his group…
46 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Features, Law, News, Politics, Politics Slideshow, Supreme Court, US History, YahooAdd 0 Members of the Supreme Court sit for a brand new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, on the Supreme Court constructing on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The US Supreme Court was fashioned in 1789. It’s gone from 5 seats to 10, and is now fastened at 9. It makes fewer than 100 selections yearly, however its…
Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems open to eliminating affirmative action in university admissions course of: ‘Why do you have these...
Newsbreak 5 months ago in Admissions, Affirmative Action, Around The World, Harvard University, Justices, News, Politics, Race, Supreme Court, University of North Carolina 0 Harvard college students Shruthi Kumar, left, and Muskaan Arshad, be a part of a rally with different activists because the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of instances that would determine the way forward for affirmative action in faculty admissions on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The Supreme Court heard two high-profile challenges to race-conscious university admissions processes. The court…
Alito appeared to reference Elizabeth Warren when he asked about ‘household lore’ on Native American ancestry during Supreme Court affirmative...
Newsbreak 5 months ago in Around The World, Elizabeth Warren, News, Politics, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Speed desk, Supreme Court 0 Justice Samuel Alito/Sen. Elizabeth Warren Justice Samuel Alito/Sen. Elizabeth Warren Samuel Alito appeared to reference Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case. The justice asked whether or not somebody who identifies as Indigenous based mostly on “family lore” may embody that on a school utility. The Supreme Court is listening to a case difficult affirmative action in school admissions. Supreme Court Justice…
Trump asks the Supreme Court to keep his taxes secret after lower courts ordered him to turn the records over
Newsbreak 5 months ago in Around The World, Breaking, News, Politics, Speed desk, Supreme Court, Taxes, Trump 0 Donald Trump at a rally in Minden, Nevada, on October 8, 2022. Newly launched footage exhibits Trump complaining about his reputation with American Jews. José Luis Villegas/AP Former President Donald Trump requested the Supreme Court on Monday to keep his taxes secret after lower federal courts ordered him to turn the records over. Trump filed an emergency application asking the nation’s highest court docket to…
Clarence Thomas says ‘I don’t have a clue’ what ‘range’ means as the Supreme Court tackles affirmative action
Newsbreak 5 months ago in Affirmative Action, Around The World, Breaking, Clarence Thomas, News, Politics, Speed desk, Supreme Court 0 Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP through Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas stated he did not know what the phrase “diversity” meant. Thomas requested for a particular definition of the phrase throughout oral arguments for a high-profile case. The Supreme Court is…
Supreme Court could eliminate affirmative action in university admissions as it considers high-profile challenges against Harvard and University of North...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Admissions, Affirmative Action, Around The World, Harvard, News, Politics, Race, Supreme Court, Universities, University of North Carolina 0 The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times through Getty Images Students for Fair Admissions needs the Supreme Court to eliminate race as an element in university admissions. Affirmative-action supporters say such a transfer would lower racial range on faculty campuses. The Supreme Court will hear the 2 high-profile challenges on Monday….
Supreme Court’s Alito says the recent pointed words between justices are nothing personal — but appeared to take a swipe...
Newsbreak 5 months ago in Around The World, Elena Kagan, News, Politics, Samuel Alito, Speed desk, Supreme Court 0 U.S. Supreme Court associate justices Samuel Alito (L) and Elena Kagan testify about the court’s budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 07, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Justice Samuel Alito appeared to take a swipe at Justice Elena Kagan in an interview on Tuesday. “Someone also crosses an important line when they say…
Samuel Alito assured Ted Kennedy of his respect for Roe v. Wade’s precedent years before writing the majority opinion that...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, News, Politics, Roe v Wade, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy 0 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) listens throughout the third day of affirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito January 11, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Justice Samuel Alito as soon as instructed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy that he revered Roe v. Wade’s precedent. The NY Times previewed parts of Kennedy’s journal in “Ted Kennedy: A…