Posted on 08/15/2024 5:39:06 AM PDT by karpov
The courts keep slapping down Biden Administration lawbreaking, not that the Harris or Trump campaigns seem to notice. An Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Friday blocked President Biden’s SAVE student loan forgiveness plan and rapped the Administration for canceling debt in defiance of a lower-court order.
The Administration rolled out the SAVE plan last summer after the Supreme Court blocked its gambit to cancel $10,000 to $20,000 for each borrower. The new plans cap monthly payments at 5% of discretionary income—defined as exceeding 225% of the poverty level—and cancel remaining balances after 10 to 20 years. Borrowers don’t have to pay accrued interest.
A lower court in June blocked the Administration from discharging debt for borrowers in these SAVE plans while letting other provisions take effect. But the Administration continued to forgive their debt by—get this—invoking authority to do so for borrowers in other repayment plans that were established by Congress. Talk about audacity.
Now the Eighth Circuit is blocking the entire SAVE plan. As the panel explains in an unsigned order, the SAVE plan “is an order of magnitude broader” than other income-based repayment plans: “Millions of borrowers who opt-in to SAVE will pay nothing towards their principal balance, nothing towards interest, and then will have their untouched principal balance forgiven sooner.”
The panel notes that the Higher Education Act lets the education secretary create “income-contingent repayment plans,” but it doesn’t allow him to cancel debt for borrowers who enroll in them. Congress in 2010 separately established loan repayment plans that cap payments at 10% of discretionary income and cancel debt after 20 years.
No law gives the secretary authority to unilaterally create generous new repayment plans under which loans can be forgiven. The panel invokes the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine
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Will the freeloaders have to pay back the unauthorized, illegal bailouts?
BTTT
“and rapped the Administration for canceling debt in defiance of a lower-court order.”
So when will the court hold Biden in contempt?
L
That’s what I don’t get. Apparently, 100’s of thousand of student loans have already been illegally “forgiven,” to the tune of billions. Is this undoable?
Related:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4258479/posts
“The Biden-Harris team has signaled that it’s gearing up for an “October Surprise” on student loan cancellation — although it might come even sooner, sneaking in before early voting starts. Once again, they are trying to shift hundreds of billions of dollars in loans onto the 90% of Americans who don’t owe student debt, to gain favor with voters who do. And this time they’ve added a brazen direct-marketing campaign to appeal to those indebted voters, just ahead of the presidential election”
During the Obama Administration, Student Financial Aid lending standards were reduced to virtually nothing and the range of what qualified as a “school” was expanded to include “trade schools” specializing in everything from finger nail painting and hair weaves.
This creating an explosion of fly by night “schools” that were worthless and many were just outright scams where the loan monies were split between the school and the student and both simply took the money and ran.
The Obama Administration saw the student loan program as a way to funnel money to allies and to provide back door reparations and income redistribution. Many of the students were fraudulent phantom students with factious identities created by politically connected people within the system.
Many of the people who received these loans had no intention educating themselves or of ever paying the loans back and simply used the money to fund their life styles and living expenses.
Most of these loans were in the sub $20,000 range so forgiving the loans allows the Democrats to cover up the blatant school loan fraud and abuses of the system that occurred under the Obama Administration.
Lots of tisk tisking and hand wringing in the DC courts...but that's about it.
If the people in this Republic are willing to put up with it, then there is no law in DC.. The lawyers can take whatever and do whatever they want... :(
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.
L
Part of the panic of the Democrats may be regarding the prospect that Trump may actually get people appointed who would investigate and prosecute these scams.
Maybe if the economy wasn’t in shambles people wouldn’t have trouble paying off their loans?
If it wasn’t prior, it is now indisputable why the federal government took over student loans.
Anyone who argues against the premise that the entire scheme was ALWAYS intended to buy votes is a terminal sufferer of the true pandemic.
https://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/24/08/242332P.pdf
Appeal from United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
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Submitted: July 26, 2024
Filed: August 9, 2024
[Published]
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Before GRUENDER [Dubya judge], ERICKSON [Trump judge], and GRASZ [Trump judge], Circuit Judges.
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