Wednesday's Wonderful Absurdities: Biden's Student Gift Debt Transfer About to Go Down in Flames, Just Like Lori Lightfoot
When Old Joe Biden made what he knew to be a false promise to millions of young Americans carrying heavy debt from their college days last summer, I (and many others) told you that no president, real or nominal, has the authority to do what he was trying to do, and that this would eventually be reversed at the U.S. Supreme Court, where judge shopping is impossible.
Well, the case is at the Supreme Court now, and, judging from the questions asked by the justices during oral arguments yesterday, the Sock Puppet’s evil handlers are going to have to find some other way to buy votes for 2024:
Here’s an excerpt from that Washington Post story:
The court’s conservative justices, who hold a 6-3 majority on the court, expressed skepticism about Biden’s authority, with several questioning the fairness of a program that helps some borrowers, but not others.
Liberal justices, meanwhile, defended the Education Department’s right to forgive loan debt as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. And they voiced doubts about whether the six Republican-led states and two individuals who brought the legal challenges are specifically harmed by the debt-relief program, which they must be in order to have legal grounds to stop it.
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So, boil that 2 paragraph passage down, and you end up with: While the 6 conservative justices asked relevant, probing questions in an effort to discover the facts and merits of the case, the 3 liberal justices naturally resorted to outright advocacy and talking points. Because that is what liberal justices are there to do, the law be damned.