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The six MAGA nut cases want to gut the Biden student loan forgiveness but had no real legal basis to do so. The Biden solicitor general did a great job of making this clear
This attorney did an amazing job
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/supreme-court-biden-loan-forgiveness-plan-chances.html
Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.
The Biden administration now seems more likely than not to win the cases, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
Her preparation, poise and power were impressive, Kantrowitz said......
She may have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, Shugerman wrote.
The nine justices considered two legal challenges to Bidens plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers. Six GOP-led states Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina had brought one of the lawsuits, and the other was backed by the Job Creators Network Foundation, a conservative advocacy organization.
Prelogar argued that the president was acting squarely within the law to avoid borrower distress during national emergencies and that plaintiffs had not shown in any way that theyd be harmed by the policy, which is typically a requirement to establish so-called legal standing.
liberal N proud
(60,916 posts)Not that it will make a difference for me, but I am thinking about all those burdened with the debt.
There are two types of people:
Those who think, I went through this and so should you.
The others who think: I went through this and and I am going to do everything I can so you don't have to.
emulatorloo
(45,520 posts)I lived in Iowa when it was a purple state that elected Democratic Predidents like Obama. Good Democratic Governons like Culver. Even the Republican Governors were not Psych MAGAs like Kim Reynolds.
Trump turned all of these states toxic.
Heres hoping Biden admin prevails.
Hekate
(94,218 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)biases. It might sneak by on the standing issue, but I fully expect the christofascists to manufacture an ideological opinion trashing the Biden Admin.