Federal education loan payments have been suspended ever since early 2020 when COVID was used as a justification to delay payments. The current extension on the delay, a pre midterm bribe for young adults, runs through June 2023 and then people with the loans have to start paying again.
In the interim, Joe Biden had a plan to relieve up to $10,000 in federal student loans for low-to-middle-income borrowers and up to $20,000 for qualifying Pell Grant recipients. However, that arbitrary Biden decree encountered multiple legal setbacks including rejection by a federal court in St. Louis and another in Texas.
Earlier today, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again rejected the Biden administration’s request to pause the Texas order vacating the $400 billion student debt relief program in a lawsuit pursued by a conservative advocacy group. {LINK} The Texas ruling from U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman was one of two decisions that prevented the Department of Education from moving forward.
The St Louis case, also lost on appeal and based on a similar finding that Biden cannot subvert congress for this spending, has now travelled to the Supreme Court who have agreed to hear oral arguments in February but will not intervene to stop the lower court rulings.
Washington — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will take up a court fight between the Biden administration and a coalition of six Republican-led states challenging the legality of the president’s student loan forgiveness program.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court last month to lift an injunction from a federal appeals court that blocked implementation of the plan, but told the court that if it denied relief, it should agree to consider the merits of the case instead.
The court said in a brief order that it will hear arguments in February but will keep the program on hold for now. Last week, President Biden extended his pause on federal student loan payments until June 30, 2023, to give the court time to consider the dispute.
“We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case on our student debt relief plan for middle- and working-class borrowers this February,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “This program is necessary to help over 40 million eligible Americans struggling under the burden of student loan debt recover from the pandemic and move forward with their lives. The program is also legal, supported by careful analysis from administration lawyers.” (more)
In response to the decision from the Texas court, the Biden administration announced it had stopped accepting applications for the debt relief program.
You must understand, the administration does not care whether this happens or not. It will have served its purpose either way.
Kept anyone from looking at the major racketeering going on under cover of Higher Ed, and kept Americans divided along class lines and yelling past each other.
The Tea Party and the Occupiers were on the same side. Both were demonized in the minds of the other.
It is far too easy to get people aroused when you tell them it is okay to openly display their cherished pet hates.
unless and until both sides recognize their common enemy in the status quo, nothing is going to change. Trump should have split the ticket in 2020 and selected Sanders as his running mate.
Republicans should be promising a thorough RICO investigation into the student loan debacle.
They won’t. You know why? Because they are afraid they might find something they would rather have stay concealed.
When you ask anyone why it is acceptable to exclude one particular class of borrower from bankruptcy protections, they will not give you an answer that is germane to the question.
No, I never took out a student loan to attend school, so don’t come at me with “pay your bills”.
it’s obvious, everyone would declare bankruptcy as soon as they graduate college.
except even the bankruptcy laws have been gerrymandered.
Nancy Pelosi included student loans in Obamacare. So, the President has the power to prioritize spending for any Congressional legislation.
Having determined Obamacare legal, the Supreme Court will ratify Biden’s Student Loan forgiveness.
The whole thing was a scam just to get votes. They never intended to go through with it and taking it to court will give them a loss they can say to all the stupid voters, “we tried”. So, the voters have been duped and will continue to vote for them.
This is a tactic of lawfare that is so insidious republicans need to understand. The left puts in place some rule or policy and the left also sues each other but it is coordinated with the intent of losing the lawsuit just to give them the justification for doing something else.
All the election law changes were done this way. Issue an order that is not what you want, go to court and lose so that you can say you were forced to do something you don’t want, but in reality it’s what you really want.
In February or March the title of the article we be the Supreme Court gives Biden a thumbs up to cancel student loans.
Just a look into the future for what it is worth.