Education Department said on Thursday that the Biden administration has forgiven $1.2 billion more in student loans for 35,000 borrowers through its Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
For real. As someone who stands to benefit from student loan forgiveness, and has been following this from the start, it’s actually very impressive how much effort this administration has gone through to continue to find other means to do so. He’s forgiven (at least) tens of millions of dollars since the SCOTUS shut down the official program.
Most would have just given up there, but they have been fighting hard for this, and I wish people gave them more credit for this.
Well he would not be liable to criminal prosecution, but that says nothing of whether the loans have to be forgiven upon his declaration.
The immunity just stops him from facing personal legal consequences and only after SCOTUS confirms any crimes were committed during an official act. How do they test for that? They haven’t said and will make up reasons to help/hurt whoever they want on a case by case basis.
Are there laws Biden could break that would force loan forgiveness, and would the current supreme court side with Biden? Seems like no in both cases aside from more Seal Team Six arguments resulting in a new set of SCOTUS judges ruling on such orders. Biden ain’t the guy to make that happen.
He could forgive it all as an “Official Act”
Republicans would fight it and SCOTUS won’t let us have nice things.
Oh damn, well 'spose should never try to do anything unless the Republicans agree with it.
“6-3 decision; now students owe double the money directly to SCOTUS. we accept Paypal”
At least if he tried, he might win the election.
he litrally did try that which started this whole thing…
He didn’t have a supreme court decision saying the president can do whatever they want as long as it’s an official act then.
The president can simply begin killing SCOTUS judges until the court has a liberal majority.
But that opens the door to Republicans doing the same thing, which they would NEVER do otherwise (unless they felt like it).
So the Dems are powerless and the GOP has unlimited power.
Do that, have the new justices reverse the previous decision. Implement corrections to prevent such a thing from happening again. Problem solved.
This is like the 5th attempt at this. Of all the things to accuse him of not trying to accomplish, student loan forgiveness is not one of them
For real. As someone who stands to benefit from student loan forgiveness, and has been following this from the start, it’s actually very impressive how much effort this administration has gone through to continue to find other means to do so. He’s forgiven (at least) tens of millions of dollars since the SCOTUS shut down the official program.
Most would have just given up there, but they have been fighting hard for this, and I wish people gave them more credit for this.
It would depend on lower courts to decide if it’s official or not
It would get appealed to SCOTUS regardless of any lower court decision
Well he would not be liable to criminal prosecution, but that says nothing of whether the loans have to be forgiven upon his declaration.
The immunity just stops him from facing personal legal consequences and only after SCOTUS confirms any crimes were committed during an official act. How do they test for that? They haven’t said and will make up reasons to help/hurt whoever they want on a case by case basis.
Are there laws Biden could break that would force loan forgiveness, and would the current supreme court side with Biden? Seems like no in both cases aside from more Seal Team Six arguments resulting in a new set of SCOTUS judges ruling on such orders. Biden ain’t the guy to make that happen.