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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. The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court. In Biden v.

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The Biggest Cases the Supreme Court Will Hear in 2023

Constitutional Law Reporter

Google LLC : This closely-watched case involves the scope of Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act of 1996 , a statute that grants Internet companies immunity from lawsuits about content posted by third parties on their public services and predates the rise of platforms like Twitter, Google, and YouTube. . 1125(c)(3)(C).

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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

Carhart struck down a partial-birth abortion law in Nebraska. However, the range of permissible state action is likely to be decided not by Congress but by the court, based not on a Texas law but on a Mississippi statute. In 1992, Roe was barely saved by a simple plurality of the court in P lanned Parenthood v.

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