George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that the Biden administration seems determined to ignore Congress and grant student loan forgiveness, despite the Supreme Court halting the program.
The Supreme Court declined to lift an appeals court order blocking the administration's latest effort to forgive student loan debt, proposed following a Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that struck down President Joe Biden's other student loan debt forgiveness proposal. When asked about the vice president's statement by “The Story” guest host Gillian Turner, Turley said the Biden administration is trying to find some legal justification to forgive student loan debt. Kamala Harris And the White House. (Related: 'Too Narrow': Jonathan Turley slams Supreme Court for avoiding 'fundamental issues' in censorship case)
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'I don't know what they'll do': Jonathan Turley reacts to Supreme Court halt to Biden administration's latest loan forgiveness effort pic.twitter.com/xyTS801avH
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“That's the problem, and that's why they've had to come up with a new way of doing things. The Supreme Court previously rejected attempts to exempt hundreds of billions of dollars under the HEROES Act, and basically said they have to go to Congress,” Turley said. “In a democratic system, you would get a vote in Congress. Instead of doing that, they came up with another law and said let's do it unilaterally based on the NEA, this education law. And now lower courts are starting to question that.”
“But it really comes down to that post. We have a system where before you give billions of dollars, you have to go to Congress and ask them,” Turley continued. “We have a massive debt in this country, and yet Harris is running on that. It's part of the joy campaign. Nothing makes me happier than not having to pay off that debt.”
Biden announced in August 2022 that he would forgive $10,000 in student loan repayments for students making less than $125,000 a year, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
“What's happened here is, after a crushing defeat at the Supreme Court, where they said they were circumventing the Constitution — an unconstitutional act that would throw hundreds of billions of dollars around — instead of saying, let's go to Congress and vote on it, they came up with another law. And if the NEA fails, I don't know what they'll do. They'll probably say it falls under FEMA's hurricane fund. They seem willing to make any argument in Congress other than asking their representatives, 'Do you want to wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars of debt?'”
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