#Four surprise Supreme Court decisions

#Four surprise Supreme Court decisions

The Supreme Court’s term came to an end last week with decisions nullifying President Biden’s student debt relief plan and the affirmative action in college admission programs, outcomes that reaffirmed the high court’s conservative bent.   The court issued several unexpected outcomes this term that suggested it may be more nuanced than meets the eye,…

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#Student loan debt and the Supreme Court: Five takeaways

#Student loan debt and the Supreme Court: Five takeaways

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Biden’s student debt relief plan, with the court’s six conservatives ruling the administration did not have the power to forgive loans for more than 40 million borrowers. The decision is a major win for Republicans who declared the plan unfair and balked at the $400 billion price…

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#Biden plots new course to get relief for student loan borrowers

#Biden plots new course to get relief for student loan borrowers

President Biden on Friday announced new actions to offer student loan borrowers some forgiveness, reintroducing his forgiveness plan grounded in the Higher Education Act (HEA). Using the HEA to provide student debt relief has been pushed by student loan advocates and top Democrats for years. Under the HEA, advocates argue it allows the education secretary to…

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#Roberts takes aim at liberal justices in defending Supreme Court’s legitimacy

#Roberts takes aim at liberal justices in defending Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion striking down the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan ended with a note taking aim at the court’s liberal justices in defending the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. Justice Elena Kagan authored the liberal justices dissent in the court’s final opinion of the term, delivering a blistering rebuttal to the court striking down…

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#Supreme Court will rule on student debt relief Friday

#Supreme Court will rule on student debt relief Friday

The Supreme Court will release its final decisions of the term Friday morning, handing down rulings on student debt relief and a free speech case involving same-sex wedding websites. The last decisions will cap a term that has already included the gutting of affirmative action in college admissions alongside string of victories for the left on the Voting…

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