biden had made plans, he had hopes of canceling upwards of $20,000 of student loan debt for upwards of 40 million borrowers. and obviously, that plan is no longer one that is remaining a hopeful one for people here. the u.s. department of education says, the student loan interest will resume in september and those payments will be due again in october. alex? oh boy, buckle up for that. okay, marissa, thank you for that. let s go to you, lawrence, because in an article published this morning, you write, the affirmative action decisions sparked fierce debate on the bench over an issue raised into other cases that justices recently ruled on. so, tell us, what were those cases? and how did they impact the affirmative action ruling? yeah, as you saw in the affirmative action ruling, two black justices on the court, clarence thomas and ketanji brown jackson, had this very fierce exchange about their views of how the constitution should deal with claims to do with race and especially any
we are standing by for two major supreme court rulings, and yes, two more after yesterday s huge affirmative action decisions. and today s president biden s student loan forgiveness plan, and it is to forgive up to $40 billion in student loans. and nebraska and five other states with two individual borrowers sued the department of education saying it exceeded the authority. and also, we are awaiting a lgbtq versus colorado. it involves a web designer which
election. but what the court said here is that, no, the elections clause of united states constitution doesn t insulate state legislatures from this type of ordinary judicial review. so it s not gonna have the broad implications that i think a lot of democrats and progressives are really worried about. okay, there are still seven outstanding cases this term, and you ve got major issues. affirmative action, student debt cancellation, lgbtq protections. what are you watching? as you mentioned, we have seven cases left, but i will tell you that the affirmative action decisions are two challenges as well as a student loan debt cancellation challenges, those are also two cases. so we are really waiting for the court s decision in both of those in affirmative action. the court has heard challenges to the use of race in college admission decisions, both at the university of north carolina and at harvard college.
how will this impact upcoming elections? people are really worried here that if the court had gone the other way that this would really influence the 2024 election. but what the court said here is that, no, the elections clause of united states constitution doesn t insulate state legislatures from this type of ordinary judicial review. so it s not gonna have the broad implications that i think a lot of democrats and progressives are really worried about. okay, there are still seven outstanding cases this term, and you ve got major issues. affirmative action, student debt cancellation, lgbtq protections. what are you watching? as you mentioned, we have seven cases left, but i will tell you that the affirmative action decisions are two challenges as well as a student loan debt cancellation challenges, those are also two cases. so we are really waiting for
first of all, help me understand why the court before deciding texas decided to take on michigan? well, the timing is strange. they could well have waited, and i think it was widely expected that they would. the issues in a sense are different enough that the justices probably felt they should go ahead. the texas question is about a specific affirmative action plan. the michigan question is about the power of voters to ban the use of affirmative action. the only direct connection is if they re taking the michigan case kind of assumes that they re not going to abolish affirmative action. i was just going to say, is that what you take out of it? that if they made that that that s probably what s coming. there would be no reason i think to take the michigan case if they were planning to overrule the earlier affirmative action decisions and say race may never be used. so when you see it was