PRESENTED BY TIKTOK

How the Biden administration will try to save its student loan relief plan at the Supreme Court

BY LEXI LONAS AND ZACH SCHONFELD

© Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million

President Biden’s student loan relief plan faces a do-or-die moment on Tuesday as it reaches the Supreme Court for oral arguments. 

The up to $20,000 in debt relief that could go to millions of Americans faces two challenges: one from six Republican-led states, Biden v. Nebraska, and another from two student loan borrowers, Department of Education v. Brown. 

Read the full story here

Advocates say Biden’s asylum rule is a Trump deja vu

BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND RAFAEL BERNAL

The Biden administration is barreling towards a legal fight with immigration groups after rolling out a new asylum policy similar to a Trump-era directive already struck down by the courts. 

Read the full story here

Tester hands Democrats 2024 boost with tough road ahead

BY AL WEAVER

Democrats got a shot in the arm this week with Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-Mont.) decision to seek reelection.

Read the full story here

Safety. Your Priority. Our Commitment.

From managing screen time limits to setting your teen's account to private, our Family Pairing tool lets you link your account to your teen's to adjust many privacy and account settings. Learn more at tiktok.com/safety

News outlets demand access to Jan. 6 footage McCarthy gave to Tucker Carlson

BY JARED GANS

A group of news outlets are demanding that they receive access to tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave to Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this week. 

Read the full story here

Timeline of the Ohio train derailment response: From EPA’s initial response to Buttigieg visit

BY JULIA SHAPERO 

In the wake of a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals in an eastern Ohio town earlier this month, Republicans have slammed the Biden administration, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in particular, for its response to the incident.

Read the full story here

Nikki Fried to lead Florida Democrats as party chair

BY MAX GREENWOOD

Florida Democrats tapped former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as their new chair on Saturday, tasking her with revamping a once-formidable state political party that has struggled to stay competitive in recent years.

Read the full story here

Hobbs urges state bar to conduct ethics review of former Arizona attorney general

BY JARED GANS

Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) is urging the Arizona State Bar to launch an ethics investigation of former state Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) following a report that he worked to hide a report that refuted false claims of voter fraud affecting the state’s elections in 2020. 

Read the full story here

How AI could influence learning across subjects, while becoming a crucial one itself

BY LEXI LONAS

The education industry is having to grapple with where artificial intelligence can fit into schools, from lesson plans to teacher training, since the technology has been propelled to the forefront of debates in recent months. 

Read the full story here

By the numbers: US military aid to Ukraine

BY ELLEN MITCHELL AND NICK ROBERTSON

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched just a year ago, has resulted in a stunning amount of U.S. military assistance for the war-torn country.

Read the full story here

Trump impeachment whistleblower and retired colonel says Russian leaders will ‘never escape accountability’

BY JULIA SHAPERO

Retired Col. Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, who blew the whistle on the 2019 call between former President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that resulted in Trump’s first impeachment, said on Saturday that Russian leaders will “never escape accountability” for their crimes in Ukraine.

Read the full story here

From managing screen time limits to setting your teen's account to private, our Family Pairing tool lets you link your account to your teen's to adjust many privacy and account settings. Learn more at tiktok.com/safety

A flawed national popular vote could work to Trump’s advantage

BY ANDY SCHATZ

OPINION | It’s anyone’s guess at this point whether Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination for president in 2024. Many Democrats have mixed feelings, hating Trump and what he’s done to the country but thinking he might be the easiest Republican opponent for President Biden (or perhaps any other Democrat) to beat.

Read the full story here

Supreme Court delivers rare victory for death row inmate: the chance to spend rest of his life behind bars

BY AUSTIN SARAT

OPINION | The Supreme Court’s ultraconservative majority has succeeded in making the court hostile territory for death row inmates. It has perfected the art of turning a blind eye to shocking injustices in capital cases or obscuring them in a dense fog of legalisms.

Read the full story here

The Associated Press: EPA orders ‘pause’ of derailment contaminated waste removal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Federal environmental authorities have ordered a temporary halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line.

Read the full story here

The Washington Post: How a small-town train derailment erupted into a culture battle

BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, JUSTINE MCDANIEL AND IAN DUNCAN

The East Palestine, Ohio, derailment, one of about 1,000 each year in America, morphed into the latest front in the nation’s culture wars, becoming a political flashpoint.

Read the full story here

The New York Times: Bipartisan plans to move aggressively on China face political hurdles in Congress

BY KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

With budgets tight and political knives drawn, lawmakers seeking to capitalize on a bipartisan urgency to confront China are setting their sights on narrower measures.

Read the full story here

Reuters: Putin casts war as a battle for Russia's survival

BY GUY FAULCONBRIDGE

President Vladimir Putin cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people - and said he was forced to take into account NATO's nuclear capabilities.

Read the full story here

Enjoy this Tipsheet? Consider sharing it with a friend or sign up here for your own copy.

The perfect complement to Morning Report and 12:30 Report to catch you up on news throughout the week. Click here to sign up.