beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s other decision the majority recognized a concrete rise to pre speech for a colorado westbound designer who argued she shouldn t be forced to construct web sites for messages that conflict with her convictions including same sex marriage. justice gorsuch writing today is emblematic by an unfortunate tenancy to defend first amendment values only when they find the speaker s method sympathetic. if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they don t want to hear. justice sanna marin sat in her incident including the majority quote a particular kind of business though open to the public has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. web designer lori smith said she has happily worked with lgbtq clients but sees a distinction