Not so fast there Biden...
Six states urge U.S. Supreme Court to keep block on Biden student debt relief
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden speaks about the student loan forgiveness program
Andrew Chung
Wed, November 23, 2022 at 11:58 AM
By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) - Six states on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject President Joe Biden's bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt that they have argued exceeded his administration's authority.
The states - Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina - filed a response to the Biden administration's request for the justices to lift a lower court's injunction halting the program while litigation over its legality continues. Five of the six states are Republican governed while the other, Kansas, has a Republican attorney general.
In their filing, the states said Biden's administration is trying to "assert power far beyond anything Congress could have conceived." The administration has said the Nov. 14 decision to block the plan leaves millions of economically vulnerable borrowers in limbo.
The administration also is contesting a Nov. 10 ruling by a federal judge in Texas who found the program unlawful. The administration stopped taking applications for student debt relief after that decision.
In a policy benefiting millions of Americans, Biden announced in August that the U.S. government would forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, or $250,000 for married couples. Students who received Pell Grants to benefit lower-income college students will have up to $20,000 of their debt canceled.
The policy fulfilled a promise that the Democratic president made during the 2020 presidential campaign to help debt-saddled former college students. The Congressional Budget Office in September calculated that the debt forgiveness would cost the government about $400 billion.
The states challenging the policy argued in their lawsuit that the debt cancellation plan intruded upon congressional authority and threatened future state revenues and money earned by state entities that invest in or service student loans.
A federal judge dismissed their case for lacking legal standing, but the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the program while it hears an appeal by the states.
Biden's administration told the Supreme Court that the 8th Circuit's decision leaves borrowers "uncertain about the size of their debt and unable to make financial decisions with an accurate understanding of their future repayment obligations."
The administration also suggested that the justices could bypass the 8th Circuit and hear the dispute itself on an expedited basis, with a decision by the end of June.
Several legal challenges have been filed contesting Biden's authority to cancel the debt under a 2003 law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, which lets the government modify or waive federal student loans during war or national emergency. Biden's administration asserts that the pandemic represented such an emergency.
The states challenging the program on Wednesday denounced the rationale. The law is meant to keep borrowers from falling into a worse financial position, while the government "uses it here to place tens of millions of borrowers in a better position by cancelling their loans en masse," they said in their filing.
While expressing confidence in the legality of his plan, Biden on Tuesday extended a pause in student loan repayments - begun during the COVID-19 pandemic - to no later than next June 30. That timing, Biden said, would give the Supreme Court time to decide the case before the pause ends.
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Here is summary and the bill itself.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/1412
https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/1412/text
Read the “Findings” in the Bill text which in another words is the legislative intent of the Bill. All courts are supposed to start their analysis of the law with legislative intent of the law before they get to constitutionality.
To me the legislative intent of the law was to prevent people in the military from student loan problems will on active duty for war or national emergency.
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What happens when the world is on welfare? Who pays then?
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They knew it would be a problem but it got to youngsters to vote them 💩
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dunbarboyz: 30423334064027/comments/30423274280219
What happens when the world is on welfare? Who pays then?
We will find out SOON if the commies get their way. That is part of the NWO as I understand it.
What's funny to me is,,,,,,,these idiots in control right now THINK they will have more power if/when the NWO takes affect. These people crave power so much that they would sell their soul for a little more. BUT the NWO would quickly remove most of these idiots from ANY power at all, they will simply TAKE their beloved money away and tell them to kick rocks.
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mike55: 30423334064027/comments/30423296226715
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11366202#Comment_11366202
We will find out SOON if the commies get their way. That is part of the NWO as I understand it.
What's funny to me is,,,,,,,these idiots in control right now THINK they will have more power if/when the NWO takes affect. These people crave power so much that they would sell their soul for a little more. BUT the NWO would quickly remove most of these idiots from ANY power at all, they will simply TAKE their beloved money away and tell them to kick rocks.
Exactly... Trump tried to stop it but the MSM and the RINO'S turned everyone against him...the people will get what they deserve.. AMERICA IS DEAD..
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Did anyone notice that 5 of the 6 states are contiguous and in the core of the US? Maybe that's an indication of what the boots on the ground citizens feel about the political agenda being pushed.
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Mobuck: 30423334064027/comments/30423334240283
Did anyone notice that 5 of the 6 states are contiguous and in the core of the US? Maybe that's an indication of what the boots on the ground citizens feel about the political agenda being pushed.
That 6th state started the Civil War.
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Our country has 50 supposedly sovereign states. Why do all 50 have to be ruled by a tiny portion of the citizenry inhabiting one city that is mostly unrelated to the rest of the country? It's essentially a redo of Rome ruling most of the known world.
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A county near here is 99% out in the country conservative but one small liberal college town allows its students to vote in county wide elections. You know the rest of the story.
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Pretty much how it is here. The college town can out vote the rest of us.
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Now where do I take my Corvette questions?
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Joe told me “that is not open for discussion” when I asked what happened to him.
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I withdraw the question.
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