Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loans is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and most people are expecting the initiative to be shot down as unconstitutional.
The left has wanted this policy for a long time and they are already forming a completely predicatable narrative about its failure. It’s the fault of all those evil Republicans.
First, the basics from CNBC:
Supreme Court questions if Biden plan for student loan relief is legalThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on two cases challenging the Biden administration’s plan to forgive without congressional action an estimated $400 billion or more in federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.President Joe Biden unveiled the plan, which would wipe out up to $20,000 in loans for certain borrowers, last year, citing the Covid-19 pandemic emergency as justification.But the plan has been blocked from taking effect since the fall due to a federal appeals court injunction after arguments about whether plaintiffs in both cases even had met the legal threshold, known as standing, of showing they would be harmed by the program.
And now the liberal narrative.
Ian Millhiser of VOX:
You probably won’t get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme CourtIf you were hoping that your student loans would be forgiven under a program that President Joe Biden announced last summer, you should, unfortunately, make other plans.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases, Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, that ask the Court to strike down the student loan relief program. That program would provide $10,000 in relief to most borrowers who earned less than $125,000 a year during the pandemic, and $20,000 in relief to borrowers who received Pell Grants.The Brown case is laughably weak, and no justice appeared to believe that federal courts have jurisdiction to hear this case. But the Supreme Court only to needs to assert jurisdiction over one of these two cases to kill the loan relief program, and the Court appeared likely to split along party lines in the Nebraska case. Though there is an off chance that Justice Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett might break from their fellow Republican appointees, all six of the GOP-appointed justices appeared inclined to kill the program.And even if the Biden administration did convince Kavanaugh or Barrett to vote in their favor, that would not be enough. The administration would need both of their votes to prevail.
CNN’s take is just as awful:
College debt relief program rests in the hands of nine wealthy and elite peopleThe fate of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program that would impact scores of borrowers from a wide array of colleges and socioeconomic backgrounds lies in the hands of nine relatively wealthy people who graduated from a short list of elite private schools…The justices’ salaries alone set them apart from most of the country: Chief Justice John Roberts will make $298,500 in 2023, while each of the associate justices will bring in $274,200 this year for their service. That doesn’t include any revenue from outside sources, like book deals.
The left is also throwing out random facts that have nothing to do with this:
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