Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan
The Supreme Court’s ruling comes a day after it ruled 6-3 that colleges and universities could not factor in an applicant’s race to determine admissions
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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