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
it went beyond his statutory powers. here is how congressman ralph norman is responding. he says you cannot cancel student loans any more than you can cancel a car payment or credit card debt. the money has to come from somewhere. proponents literally wanted student loan debt transferred to other people. it s obnoxious. lesley. well it was a campaign promise which got a lot of young americans to vote for joe biden to become president and he said he was going to do thatten he did that. out of all of the rulings this is the one i m not surprised went this way and because of that. because i have heard legal arguments on both sides and there is that area of overlap which is, you know, too much authority and does that one individual in education have that much authority. because if they do with this, then there are other places they would as well. shannon: yeah, and so on the other side of this coin, senator bernie sanders said this, in my view, if right wing supreme court justices want
by Ernie McCray We’ve got a court that’s considered “Supreme,” yet, it has trampled on women’s hopes and dreams, taking away their right to have autonomy regarding their health and their bodies that go back to the previous century, leaving their granddaughters and great-granddaughters to face a reality where they, might, someday, serve time in…
WASHINGTON When it comes to upholding even a mild form of affirmative action, three big unions the Teachers (AFT), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Service Employees say “yes” and the Republican-named Supreme Court justices are apparently saying “no.