( February 25, 2026, 9:24 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 24 heard oral arguments in a case in which a pipeline company’s attorney argued that “federal courts retain their traditional equitable authority to excuse the 30-day removal deadline” and the Michigan solicitor general contended that the company seeks “an atextual escape hatch” with respect to federal removal of the attorney general’s state court lawsuit that sought to shut down operation of the company’s oil and gas pipeline on grounds that it posed a “risk of release.”...