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In Oklahoma, a new test of religion in public schools

By Adam Kemp

A new lawsuit is challenging what would be the nation’s first publicly-funded religious charter school.

Wisconsin lawsuit asks new liberal-controlled Supreme Court to toss Republican-drawn congressional maps

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

The long-promised action from a coalition of law firms and voting rights groups comes the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped from a conservative to liberal majority.

Alaska asks Supreme Court to strike down rejection of a proposed copper, gold mine

By Associated Press

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January blocked the proposed Pebble Mine, citing concerns with potential impacts on a rich aquatic ecosystem that supports the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.

Supreme Court allows construction to resume on contested Mountain Valley Pipeline

By Associated Press

Work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline had been blocked by the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, even after Congress included the project's approval as part of the bipartisan bill increasing the debt ceiling.

WATCH: White House holds briefing as Education Department investigates Harvard’s legacy admissions

By Michael Casey, Associated Press

Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions.

WATCH: Senate Judiciary approves bill to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

The ethics legislation has little chance of passing the Senate — it would need at least nine GOP votes, and Republicans have strongly opposed it — or the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Affirmative action ruling prompts new push to end legacy admissions

By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris

The Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in college admissions has renewed the debate over legacy admissions. A Boston-based nonprofit filed a complaint alleging Harvard’s legacy and donor-based admissions favors white students, and the NAACP called on 1,600 public and…

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Utah high court scrutinizes process that sliced state’s most Democrat-heavy county into 4 districts

By Sam Metz, Associated Press

State Supreme Court justices lobbed questions Tuesday at attorneys for the state and the seven voters suing over maps they claim dilute their voting power and violate the state constitution.

AP investigation reveals potential conflicts of interest for Supreme Court justices

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

Emails and other documents show that Supreme Court staff members have been directly engaged in facilitating book sales by asking schools how many copies they want to buy and by helping to arrange the purchase of mass quantities.

Nonprofit files civil rights complaint challenging legacy admissions at Harvard

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, is filing the civil rights complaint on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act.