Posted on 03/08/2023 8:06:55 AM PST by JV3MRC
Sure, President Joe Biden unilaterally canceling student loan debt without Congressional approval is probably illegal, but whatever. At least, that’s the argument The Washington Post editors are running with.
The Post editorial board ran a dim-witted editorial headlined: “Biden overreached on student loans. But the court shouldn’t stop him.” The president abused his executive authority when he canceled $10,000 in debt for “most borrowers” and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients on Aug. 24, 2022. The act hit taxpayers with a price tag in the billions, according to CNBC. The Post admitted that Biden’s plan was “expensive,” “ill-targeted” and “made worse by the fact that Mr. Biden failed to get congressional approval for the $400 billion initiative,” but the editorial board proceeded to do a 180-degree turnaround. “[W]hile we have criticized the Biden plan as a regressive and expensive mistake, we also believe it would be an overreach for the justices to strike it down.” How exactly would it be an “overreach” for the U.S. Supreme Court to, er, uphold constitutional law?
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas summed up the dangerous overreach of Biden’s plan last week when SCOTUS heard oral arguments debating the law. “In effect, this is a grant of $400 billion,” said Thomas. “[I]t runs headlong into Congress' appropriations authority." The Post, in effect, just shrugged this off.
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Now Biden will have to rewrite at least parts of the U.S. Constitution and proclaim it the new and improved law of the land.
If it’s unconstitutional, then scotus should just declare it so. Forget standing, forget the administrative procedures act. If it’s unconstitutional, do your job, scotus, and simply rule it unconstitutional.
Now Biden will have to rewrite at least parts of the U.S. Constitution and proclaim it the new and improved law of the land.
Brandon will have Corn Pop do it.
They didn’t stop Hitler either. The Compost is a crock of crap.
Don’t worry, Chief Justice Roberts is busy trying to come up with an excuse not to stop him.
Whoops.
The house would have impeached PDJT for spitting on a sidewalk. The analogy “crooked as a politician” needs to be
woke up to “crooked as a Democrat politician”.
I said in advance of last year’s election that Republican Congress would let fighting get away with more than Democrats congressman did.
Because they don’t WANT to be in power, they want to be in the minority, where nothing is expected, and they can just cash in on doing nothing.
“Once we have the presidency, the house and senate, the supreme court, and all the federal courts in our favor, THEN we can do all that stuff that you peons want. Until then, it wouldn’t matter what we do, as someone somewhere would rule against it, and call us big poopy-heads, and we can’t have THAT!”.
How soon ‘til the Washington Post losses enough credibility they have to close their doors forever? We must be getting close...
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