President Biden took an oath to uphold the constitution. the constitution includes checks and balances. Isn't the supreme court part of that system of checks and balances? Didn't the supreme curt tell the president that he doesn't have the authority to forgive student debt? So what is he doing here? Isn't ignoring the supreme court a threat to democracy? Isn't ignoring the supreme court operating above the law? I don't understand what he is doing here.
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SCOTUS struck down a specific program based (if I recall correctly) in part on legislation signed during the pandemic, as well as on older statutes. They did no say he doesn't have the authority to forgive debt, only that he didn't have authority to forgive debt with the plan he proposed, using the legal justification he cited.
This program has a different design and the administration clearly believes that it is consistent with authority granted by Congress to manage the student loan programs, including provisions for loan forgiveness.
This will end up back in the courts, and probab… Read more
