Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

The Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s program writing off hundreds of billions of dollars in federally held student loan debt Friday, ruling that the commander-in-chief had overstepped his executive authority.

On the last day before the high court’s summer recess, the six conservative justices ruled the $400 billion plan could not use a 2003 law meant to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as a vehicle to implement the program. ---More...

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