Posted on 02/28/2023 12:50:57 PM PST by Red Badger
The Supreme Court signaled it will likely put the final dagger in Joe Biden’s unconstitutional student loan bailout program.
Joe Biden unilaterally announced a massive forgiveness of student loans in August to buy the Gen Z-Millennial vote in the 2022 midterms.
Biden canceled up to $10,000 in student debt for borrowers who earn $125,000 a year or less and up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants.
The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in November extended a block on Joe Biden’s student loan bailout plan.
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The DOJ then asked the Supreme Court to lift the 8th Circuit Court’s block.
The Supreme Court left the block in place while they hear oral arguments and deliberate.
The highest court of the land on Tuesday heard oral arguments on Biden’s student loan bailout plan.
After a few hours of arguments, the conservative justices signaled they were not on board with Biden’s bailout plan.
Politico reported:
President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans seems to be in danger based on oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
A majority of justices appeared dubious about the Biden administration’s pandemic-related legal justification for the sweeping debt relief program, which offered up to $20,000 of loan forgiveness per borrower. The initiative has been put on hold while the high court debates the case.
During more than three hours of oral argument, conservative justices on the court repeatedly questioned whether the Education Department had the legal authority it claimed to discharge federal student loan debt to help borrowers recover economically from the national emergency spurred by Covid-19.
They don’t care, they just did it for the election.
If it were to be allowed it would only serve to accelerate the destruction of the U.S. economy.
The Biden team is fighting for us!!!~ext sarc
Tell the student borrowers sorry but we had to send $130 billion to Ukraine and can’t afford it.
Biden has no big kickbacks from the USA. His wealth is from China and Ukraine. He is a darn traitor. Both he and his punk son should be scheduled to be HUNG AT LEAVENWORTH.
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This was definitely my favorite part of your story!
I don’t know about this. I’ve found that you really cannot tell much about how a Justice will rule based upon their questions during oral argument. Both Kavanaugh and Barrett have me concerned when it comes to legal standing of the States. They may not think Biden has the authority to forgive student loans, but they may rule that these States do not have legal standing to contest it.
How can they not have ‘standing’ when the states run the colleges and universities?.................
The justices were mooning the Brandon Administration lawyers by the end of the hearing. One even flipped them the bird.
Read those tea leaves and weep.
Not that I agree with this, but this is typical legal thinking:
The colleges and universities are unharmed; they’re still getting their money. To sue, you have to prove that you were harmed. Usually, even proving that you will be harmed isn’t sufficient. Even if an a law prevents you from doing something well within your rights, you can’t sue to prevent the law from being enacted; you have to wait until you’ve been arrested and thrown in jail to share an open toilet with violent meth heads going through withdrawal. It’s as if law-abiding citizens have no right to oppose unjust laws. (There have been a few recent cases where the court considered the harm of rights being taken away.)
In this case, there’s a real issue of whether ANYONE can complain about their tax dollars being stolen by the government out of the treasury for anything the president wants.
President Retard’s taxpayer ripoff scheme in danger
I don’t agree with you, but you did make me laugh.
The core of this should simply be Constitutional authority of the Executive branch to effectively apportion funds or levy taxes. Which is exactly zero.
I do think that Biden knew that this was beyond the Constitutional power of the President (not from his own feeble understanding, but from the advice of the Solicitor General and other advisors), but waited until he was in such close proximity to the election so that the first federal ruling would come down afterwards. He wanted the beneficial impact on the election.
“How can they not have ‘standing’ when the states run the colleges and universities?”
The colleges and universities already got paid.
True, but future losses because of lower student applications would be a ‘harm’...............
“In this case, there’s a real issue of whether ANYONE can complain about their tax dollars being stolen by the government out of the treasury for anything the president wants.”
At a minimum, Congress could bring a suit that Biden usurped their authority over government spending, I suppose. I’m sure Biden’s DOJ would argue they aren’t actually spending any money, just forgiving a debt, but that’s a pretty flimsy argument.
No, only a potential, theoretical harm, not a real harm, and courts require a real harm.
You mean I won’t get my student loans forgiven/paid off? Sigh........... :-) /sarcasm off
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