Why the New Legal Attack on Biden's Student Loan Relief Is Already Doomed

[In It to Win It]

Slate

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On Tuesday, Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit designed to block President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. The suit makes a creative attempt to surmount the biggest obstacle to a legal assault on Biden’s program: the fact that nobody appears to be injured by loan relief, so nobody has standing to sue. But it will still probably fail, for two related reasons. First, the lawsuit is premature, since there’s no existing program yet for courts to assess and strike down. Second, because it’s premature, the suit divulges conservatives’ best strategy to surmount the standing hurdle—and gives the administration an opportunity to forestall it.

If PLF’s goal is to impress its funders with a splashy sortie against Biden, mission accomplished. But if its goal is to halt student debt relief, the suit is not nearly as clever as PLF thinks.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Notice how the media and country just takes it for granted that if a politician tries to do

something GOOD for Americans, the entire republican party will work on NOTHING ELSE until it is stopped.

[Walleye]

2. I got it. Do not extend the loan forgiveness to people in states that will tax it as income

Let the governors explain to the students in their state that they aren’t getting loan forgiveness because the state threatened to tax it as income