U.S. Supreme Court

The high court is already set to consider several gun-related cases this term. The U.S. Supreme Court had also declined to issue an injunction on Illinois' ban back in May 2023.

The 2-1 ruling sets up a likely appeal to U.S. Supreme Court.

Longtime Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg discusses the cases she will follow in the new U.S. Supreme Court session.

Missouri’s community colleges also lawmakers they were not affected by the Supreme Court’s decision because they did not consider race in admissions.

Missouri has had a role in recent First Amendment cases involving tech companies and LGBTQ discrimination.

The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority — MOHELA — is named 85 times in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion striking down the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. The ruling affects more than 777,000 Missourians with federal student loans who would have received $10,000-$20,000 of relief.

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that dismayed millions of people who were hoping for debt relief through President’s Biden program. Many of those borrowers live in the Midwest states that brought the case to the high court.

The decision means the ban will now likely remain in effect while the federal appeals court in Chicago takes time to hear arguments in the case.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released new rules regarding the Waters of the United States that decide which bodies of water fall under federal protection. But a case the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on soon throws those rules into question and could mean less protection for wetlands.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group.