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Biden's legal justification for student debt forgiveness was the 2003 Hero's Act, which allowed the Secretary of Education to discharge student loans debt in ti
by alsaaro 3y ago
Biden's legal justification for student debt forgiveness was the 2003 Hero's Act, which allowed the Secretary of Education to discharge student loans debt in times of national emergency (like a Pandemic).
Trump cited this enabling law when he halted student loan payments.
The Supreme Court, invented a new legal theory called the "major questions doctrine" they self-cited as justification to end this policy. The Supreme Court is not a King either, though clearly they want to be.
- Eumenes 3y ago[flagged]
- monocasa 3y agoThis action was taken before the emergency was over, it's simply taken this long to go through the courts.
- alsaaro 3y agoThe Republican Supreme Court ruled against this because it is not simpatico with their pollical beliefs. The statutory authority for Biden's actions is there, that doesn't matter because black-letter law and jurisprudence don't matter anymore, only conservative political outcomes.