SCOTUS says pay up those student loans!
https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1674789084601122822
BREAKING: the Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN President Biden's student-debt-relief plan by a 6-3 vote. The plan is not authorized by the HEROES Actβthe law relied upon by Biden's education secretary.
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) June 30, 2023
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Who would have guess doing something not authorized by congress was not authorized by congress
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Justice Kagan is pretending that it was approved by Congress which is a leap. The HEREOS Act when passed by Congress had nothing to do with forgiving debt on a mass scale.
This is what Congress actually debated and passed (under George Bush in 2002):
It's so obvious what the intention of this law was in the context of 9/11, granting waivers to a select group of people for specific reasons.
This is a check on federal/executive power which was the whole point of the Supreme Court. It has nothing to do with "legislating from the bench". If anything broadening the scope of the HEREOS Act = legislating from the bench because it broadens and changes the meaning/intention of existing law.
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Kagan and Jackson may actually be r-slurred.
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Women in the workplace was a mistake
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Its also rich when the left tries to critique using the Supreme Court for being a policy generative tool when that was the biggest stereotype of democrat judges forever. Scalia and others used to rant about this stuff constantly.
The root of it was the huge expansion in executive power where everyone expects the president to be able to make massive policy at the swipe of the pen. George W Bush was the one who started that whole trend, Obama 10x'd it and Trump/Biden kept it up.
Redditors will handwring about representative democracy dying but when it comes down to it they all just want presidential monarchs. Partly because US Congress is one of the most useless institution's in the world but their alternative isnt any better
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This trend was started by FDR tbh
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The problem with Kings is that while good ones are the best form of government possible, there aren't many good ones
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True, and also the probability that their spoiled children who grew up in the lap of luxury will turn out to be good kings also is practically nil
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this is a boomer talking point, also wrong
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Spit dat truth KANG!
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But if you read this law a certain way the President can literally do anything can't you read?
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I try not to misread
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