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Supreme Court to hear “nondelegation” challenge to telecom access program

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A friend of the court brief filed by Alaska argues that upholding the 5th Circuits ruling will have a significant real-world impact for the states residents. For these rural consumers, the Funds continued existence is not about subsidized telecommunications access, it is about whether rural Alaska will have reliable access at all.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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Sue, Baby, Sue: Trump Plan to “Un-Ban” the Biden Drilling Order Could Prove Difficult

JonathanTurley

Trump faced that question in 2017 when he sought to overturn a ban by President Barack Obama in order to open up Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas and some parts of the Atlantic to oil and gas exploration. District Court for the District of Alaska struck down Trumps order. Two years later, a judge on the U.S.