The Supreme Court ruled Biden’s student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I hope all americans pay attention. This was struck down due to the way it was implemented (under the “heroes act” as an "emergency) which reflects how broken the US political system is.

    While the court is conservative this probably better reflects how broken the system is in Washington. It’s arguable whether this is the courts fault or the dems for using something they knew might be struck down. The initial picture of this just being the courts fault is probably too simple - it is better seen through the prism of next year’s elections and both sides posturing and scoring points.

    It’s helpful to the dems to have another unpopular court decision, but it’s up for debate whether this is straight forward conservative court blocking the dems or the dems knowingly pushing something that would get struck down to help drive outrage, it a bit of both with the dems taking a gamble knowing they win either way. None of the scenarios reflects well on US democracy.

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      1 year ago

      It’s helpful to the dems to have another unpopular court decision, but it’s up for debate whether this is straight forward conservative court blocking the dems or the dems knowingly pushing something that would get struck down to help drive outrage

      Brain dead take.