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U.S. judge strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan

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(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, called the program an "unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power" as he ruled in favor of two borrowers backed by a conservative advocacy group.
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U.S. judge strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan

(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of...
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As predicted, Biden's plan to buy votes has been found unconstitutional because the President can't spend that kind of money without approval from Congress. Too bad the story didn't break before the midterms.
 
natman said:
(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, called the program an "unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power" as he ruled in favor of two borrowers backed by a conservative advocacy group.
www.yahoo.com

U.S. judge strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan

(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

As predicted, Biden's plan to buy votes has been found unconstitutional because the President can't spend that kind of money without approval from Congress. Too bad the story didn't break before the midterms.
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Biden himself said he couldn't do it. Pelosi said he couldn't do it. Anyone with a very basic understanding of the Constitution, and who creates spending, knew he couldn't do it. He did it anyways as a cynical ploy to buy votes.
 
This should surprise no one as it's a pattern with this administration. They exceed their authority, announce a plan favored by their base, get rightly stopped by the courts for an unconstitutional maneuver, and (forthcoming) complain about "MAGA judges" standing in the way of democracy. This was the same pattern with mortgage loan forgiveness and their vaccine mandate.

Our friends on the left really need to learn to respect the law more than they do.
 
NatMorton said:
This should surprise no one as it's a pattern with this administration. They exceed their authority, announce a plan favored by their base, get rightly stopped by the courts for an unconstitutional maneuver, and (forthcoming) complain about "MAGA judges" standing in the way of democracy. This was the same pattern with mortgage loan forgiveness and their vaccine mandate.

Our friends on the left really need to learn to respect the law more than they do.
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The left loves to harp on "threats to democracy". This sort of thing, along with the administration / Senate pressuring private companies to do things for them they can't get passed pose a far greater threat to democracy than the Jan 6 riot ever did.

If they don't want judges overturning their plans, they should stop doing so many things that are clearly unconstitutional.
 
Come'on... it's inflationary. Lets not make the Fed's job any tougher than it already is.
 
Amen!
 
natman said:
The left loves to harp on "threats to democracy". This sort of thing, along with the administration / Senate pressuring private companies to do things for them they can't get passed pose a far greater threat to democracy than the Jan 6 riot ever did.

If they don't want judges overturning their plans, they should stop doing so many things that are clearly unconstitutional.
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I wouldn't undersell the threat represented by Jan 6, but you'll get no argument from me this administration lacks respect for the democratic process.
 
natman said:
What does this have to do with the judge calling an unconstitutional plan unconstitutional?
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You can't figure it out?
 
Doesn't matter now. The administration got what it wanted, which was to fool its dimwitted supporters into coming out to vote to save their $10K or $20K.

The fact that is will never happen and the suckers are left holding the bag? Dem leaders are probably having a huge laugh about it this morning.

Biden should be impeached over this.
 
NatMorton said:
No, we've got to keep them personally accountable, which is decidedly not the Democratic way.
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I stand by my initial statement.
 
NatMorton said:
Anyone here suspicious of the timing of this announcement coming just three days after the midterm elections?
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This nugget from the OP link lacks the date:

The debt relief plan had already been temporarily blocked by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while it considers a request by six Republican-led states to enjoin it while they appealed the dismissal of their own lawsuit.
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Whether it was ever going to happen made no difference in it’s ‘vote buying’ potential. The point was that generous (with other people’s money) demorats wanted to help (40M mostly younger) folks financially and stingy MAGA folks took action to deny that financial help.

This nugget…

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in September calculated the debt forgiveness would eliminate about $430 billion of the $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt and that over 40 million people were eligible to benefit.
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Is totally dishonest since the student debt was not going to be “eliminated” - it was simply going to be removed (transferred away?) from the individual students and added to the national debt.
 
Soooo...who had standing to bring this suit?
 
NatMorton said:
Guess this means all those laid-off Twitter millennials and gen-Zers will have to find a new job and pay off their debts.

That is so, like, unfair!
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When I got my college education in 1972, I paid for all of college with my paper route! And I still had enough left over for rent, car, and to eat out now and again!
 
natman said:
(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, called the program an "unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power" as he ruled in favor of two borrowers backed by a conservative advocacy group.
www.yahoo.com

U.S. judge strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan

(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

As predicted, Biden's plan to buy votes has been found unconstitutional because the President can't spend that kind of money without approval from Congress. Too bad the story didn't break before the midterms.
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Biden administration fooled them again!
Vote for us and get free college. Well 10,000 free.🤣🤣
 
natman said:
What does this have to do with the judge calling an unconstitutional plan unconstitutional?
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It shifts the ‘blame’ from judges noting that it was unconstitutional to republicants.
 
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