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Supreme Court to Consider Challenges to Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Constitutional Law Reporter

Nebraska , involves a legal challenge by six states. While the Court declined to stay the injunction while the legal proceedings play out, it did agree to fast-track the appeal. On December 12, 2022, the Court agreed to expedite the legal challenge. The first case, Biden v.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. With regard to the legality of the loan forgiveness plan, the Court found that it was not authorized under the HEROES Act. The post Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Biden v.

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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. Ginsburg was not the only one dismissive of these theories.

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The Appeal of Chaos: How Politicians and Pundits are Misconstruing The Supreme Court’s Order on the Texas Abortion Law

JonathanTurley

Both were legally and factually wrong. The Texas law was enacted in May — but challengers waited until shortly before it was to take effect on Sept. It is not just citizens but jurists and legal experts too who remain divided. In 1989, a fractured court upheld a restrictive Missouri abortion law in Webster v.

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Alito ‘Stunned’ By Court Exercising Judicial Power He Championed & Expanded Just Months Ago

Above The Law

But beneath the straightforward legal question lies a revealing pattern of inconsistency from some of the Courts conservatives. Elon Musk and his DOGE crew went into USAID and halted nearly all payments, which created an interesting legal problem that had been mostly theoretical prior to the current administration. First was Biden v.

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Biden Again Summons His “Leading Legal Constitutional Scholars” to Support an Absurd Constitutional Claim

JonathanTurley

In his final week as president, Joe Biden again invoked liberal professors to justify a plainly absurd constitutional argument by declaring that the 28th Amendment is now ratified. By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law.

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I See Dead Amendments: President Biden Issues Otherworldly ERA Declaration

JonathanTurley

Archivist, Colleen Shogan recently explained that neither her office nor the White House have the authority to publish the amendment unilaterally or waive the deadline for ratification: In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. ” The reason is simple. The underlying argument is utterly ridiculous.

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