The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas,

The US Supreme Court will weigh a fresh line of attack on federal administrative power, agreeing to consider the constitutionality of the $8 billion annual slate of subsidies that help cover the cost of telecom services for poor people and rural residents.

The court stepped into a fight over the $8B a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet service in schools, libraries and rural areas.

Texas Supreme Court Overturns Ruling That State Attorney General Ken Paxton Testify in Lawsuit The Texas Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in a whistleblower lawsuit at the heart of ...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, can't be deposed in a whistleblower lawsuit that eventually led to impeachment charges being brought against him last year.

Whistleblowers suing Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t get the chance to depose him and three other high-ranking agency staff, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a major win for the embattled officeholder.