sm mark rulings. here is chief legal correspondent and fox news sunday anchor. hands up. reporter: another day of decisions split, 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court. an opinion by chief justice john robert, the majority struck down the biden administration plan to wipe out $430 billion in student loan debt. we hope the act allows the education secretary to waive or mo modify existing provisions. not to rewrite the statute from the ground up. they argue the secretary did have the power. the statute gives the secretary broad thought to relieve it on borrowers able to repay student loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shou
sm mark rulings. here is chief legal correspondent and fox news sunday anchor. hands up. reporter: another day of decisions split, 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court. an opinion by chief justice john robert, the majority struck down the biden administration plan to wipe out $430 billion in student loan debt. we hope the act allows the education secretary to waive or mo modify existing provisions. not to rewrite the statute from the ground up. they argue the secretary did have the power. the statute gives the secretary broad thought to relieve it on borrowers able to repay student
will punish you for what you re writing and creating, that s where you re protected. the court was trying to draw a line between creative or speech writes versus services that are provided. they did that here. you can t have a government, i think it s like a penalty plus require courses and educational tracking they could do like reporting and that sort of thing on businesses in colorado. that was would run afoul the first amendment. thank you so much for your time and analysis. thank you. for closer look at the political fall out from the court s decision the override president biden s student loan bail out, let s bring in angela. welcome. thank you. it s great to be with you. let s start with education secretary on who would have benefitted. let s be clear about who
was there any surprise, alex, since congress has the power of the purse? if you attended oral arguments or listen to them, you weren t that surprised. there was skepticism about if the president or the executive branch would have that much authority to unilaterally wipe out this much debt. president biden cited it that applied to military debt, family suffering in the wake of 9/11, that sort of thing. the court said could it stretch this far. of course, covid-19 pandemic there s economic implications from that. in his opinion, he noted this would have affected 98% of borrowers. it s very widespread. eliminated loan forgiveness.
loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shouldn t be no, sired to create custom websites for messages that conflict. if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. justice sotomayer called today sad accusing the majority of declaring a particular kind of business, though especially to