most of their arguments were around whether or not something like this needed congressional authorization. as chief justice john roberts said, has to do with a half trillion dollars, millions of americans, he really suggested that. they also had concerns with, look, maybe in a time of emergency this was executive overreach, but also they had another point, and they just really talked about basic fairness, what about people who paid their loans? what about people who didn t get loans because they knew they couldn t pay for them? listen to conservative justice neil gorsuch on that particular point. when i think they argue that is missing is cost to other persons in terms of fairness, for example. people who paid their loans, people who don t have plan their lives around not seeking loans and people who are not eligible for loans in the first place and that half a trillion dollars is being diverted to one group of favored persons over others. but there was one other big
student payment obligations those deployed in the wake of 9/11 gives the biden administration authority not only to pause student loan payments as was initially done under the trump administration but to also wipe out roughly $400 billion in principle all with the stoke of a pen. i think most casual on or abouters would say if you are going to give that up much amount of money if you are going to effect the obligation of that many americans on a subject that s of great controversy, they would think that s something for congress to act on. the biden administration argues congress did act. that the law in question provided the pathway for education secretary miguel cardona to step n the face of the covid emergency. justice kagan seems to agree. we worry about executive power when congress hasn t authorized the use of executive power. here congress has authorized the use of executive power in an emergency situation where in that sphere where the executive is acting with congressiona
leave americans worse off. the president cannot do it. unilaterally and without congressional authorization. if we let that go as a precedent, it really demonstrates that the president of the united states can act on a political whim and spend half a trillion dollars. that has to be something that a court weighs in on. ainsley: fox news political analyst gee an know caldwell joins us now. i m happy that you are alive, ainsley. i m glad you were born. great children s book. will a lady came over here on vacation. she became a citizen. she went six years without seeing her family down in brazil. because she wanted to do it the right way. right. ainsley: she raised her daughter. she was cleaning houses. she worked for four families to put her daughter through college. now they are making me or talking about making me pay for other people s colleges? a lot of folks are quite
wholesale debt cancellation without congressional authorization. he would only be limited to waiving interest payments or putting a hold on payments. that s it. so, this is going to end unjust like the other presidents excessive abuses of power in which he got struck down by the courts. it was his covid mandates and his eviction moratorium and race based farm program. his moratorium on deportations. all of that was struck down by the courts, principally because biden said i don t have the power to do this and then he went ahead and did it. brian: started with daca and president obama and it s still there. so was able to just do that through executive order. read more about this on foxnews.com. greg, thanks for waking up with us. sure. brian: still ahead one year ago today lance corporal and 12 other service members were
U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision,limiting EPA power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111d of the Clean Air Act CAA. Court held under its major-questions precedent,such consequential regulation must be based on clear congressional authorization