Tag: Supreme Court

Protest Outside the Supreme Court After Justices Strike Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program

Live view of the exterior of the Supreme Court, which is expected to issue the final rulings of its term on June 30. …


Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program

The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30 to strike down President Joe Biden’s controversial plan to partially forgive student loans. The six conservative justices voted to invalidate the program in the closely watched case, while the three liberal justices voted to uphold it. Biden unveiled the plan in August 2022 in a move critics…


Supreme Court Rules for Christian Web Designer in Forced Speech Case

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in favor of a Christian website designer who said Colorado’s law requiring her to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings infringed on her constitutional rights. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion (pdf) in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (court file 21-476) which was decided June 30. The three liberal justices…


Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America

Commentary On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something…


LIVE NOW: NTD Good Morning (June 30): 3 House Committees Investigate Alleged DOJ Interference in Hunter Biden Probe; SCOTUS Ruling

Three House committees are working together to investigate IRS whistleblower claims around an investigation into Hunter Biden. The whistleblower alleges the Justice Department interfered in a criminal tax investigation. The House committees are demanding transcribed interviews from lawyers and agents that worked on Hunter Biden’s case. The U.S. Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in…


NTD Good Morning (June 30): 3 House Committees Investigate Alleged DOJ Interference in Hunter Biden Probe; SCOTUS Rulings

Three House committees are working together to investigate IRS whistleblower claims around an investigation into Hunter Biden. The whistleblower alleges the Justice Department interfered in a criminal tax investigation. The House committees are demanding transcribed interviews from lawyers and agents that worked on Hunter Biden’s case. The U.S. Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in…


Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Draws Celebration and Criticism

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based admissions policies at U.S. colleges—known as affirmative action policies—was met with celebration as well as disappointment and defiance. Prior to Thursday’s decision, the Supreme Court had allowed colleges to weigh an applicant’s race when making admissions decisions. In the 1978 case Regents of the University of…


Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action Ignites Debate Over Equality

According to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, race is no longer a factor in college admissions. How could this decision impact students across the country, and how is President Joe Biden reacting? Worsened air quality in Washington and across much of the upper portion of the United States is leading to renewed calls for a climate…


Biden Says Packing Supreme Court Could ‘Politicize’ It Forever

President Joe Biden stated in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings went too far, but he remained opposed to court-packing, contending that it could permanently politicize the institution. Biden’s interview was his first on television since May, and he expressed concern that the conservative justices “may do too…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (June 29): SCOTUS Rejects Race-Based Admissions at Colleges; House GOP Demands DOJ Interviews on Hunter Biden

The Supreme Court struck down on a 6–3 vote the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision issued on June 29 ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. The court also unanimously ruled that a lower court applied the wrong standard in a…