President and Administration
President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday, 1/20, offered a sweeping condemnation of the articles of impeachment against him, contending they’re a legally defective “affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions”...
Education
In a bipartisan vote on 1/16, the House passed legislation to overturn Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ rule that curtails student loan forgiveness for students who claim they were defrauded by their college...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue(Case No. 18-1195), a case brought by three Montana families who argue the state unconstitutionally prohibited religious schools from a program that would provide tax credits for donations to private school scholarship programs...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday, 1/17, announced plans to further relax heightened school meal nutrition standards created by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010...
Upcoming changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are expected to affect nearly 700,000 Americans, with college students among them...
Congress
The seven House Democratic managers released their own legal brief on Monday, 1/20, arguing that the Trump team’s objection to the abuse of power charge ignored the intentions of the founders, and in doing so left the country “powerless to remove a president for corruptly using his office to cheat in the next election”...
More than 40 U.S. states could allow some form of legal marijuana by the end of 2020, including deep-red Mississippi and South Dakota...