Nina Totenberg

A majority of the court's conservatives indicating great skepticism over the president's loan-forgiveness plan.

At the Supreme Court, some Republican-dominated states seemed on the verge of invalidating Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. A majority of the court's conservatives looked skeptical of the plan.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments over whether the Biden administration exceeded its authority with its student debt forgiveness program.

On Tuesday, the justices will hear expedited arguments in a challenge to the Biden plan brought by six states — Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas and South Carolina.

At issue is how the CFPB is funded: It gets its money from the Federal Reserve, which in turn is funded by bank fees, and not through congressional appropriations.

The cases involved who qualifies for overtime pay, and Arizona's refusal to apply a Supreme Court precedent in death penalty jury instructions.

Day two of the big tech arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court: On one side are Twitter, Google, Facebook and other mega companies. On the other, American families of people killed in terrorist attacks.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving Section 230, the law that provides tech companies a legal shield against being sued over content posted online by their users.

At issue in the case is a 1996 law that shields internet platforms from being sued for material that appears on their sites.

At the center of two cases to be argued over two days is Section 230, which provides tech companies a legal shield over what users post online.

The court marshal clarified Friday that she spoke with the Supreme Court justices about the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade for her recent report. The justices were not asked to sign affidavits.

The Supreme Court says it is unable so far to conclude who leaked the Dobbs decision last summer. This comes after an eight-month probe conducted by the court's marshal and an investigative team.

The court called the leak "one of the worst breaches of trust in its history." The Marshal of the Supreme Court "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible," the court said Thursday.

For decades, advocates knew that when their allotted time had expired, they were done. Not so anymore.

If adopted the so-called independent state legislature theory would give state legislatures the power to put in place all manner of election laws and rules, without any review by the state courts.

The Supreme Court considered whether to endorse the "independent state legislature" theory, which could strip state courts of the power to strike down election laws enacted by state legislatures.

The "independent state legislature theory" could give state legislatures independent power to put in place all manner of election rules, without any available review by state courts.

Lorie Smith says Colorado's public accommodations laws violate her right of free speech.

A Colorado web designer says the state's public accommodations law prevents her from doing web designs for weddings because she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.

The case involves a Colorado web designer who says state law prevents her from designing wedding websites because she believes that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.