CNN: ‘SCOTUS Blocks Biden’s Student Loan Plan & Limits LGBTQ Protections in Major Rulings’

Source:CNN- at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source:The New Democrat

“The Supreme Court issued two monumental 6-3 decisions on the final day of its current term. The conservative court blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and limited LGBTQ protections in a separate Colorado case.

Biden slammed the court’s decision to reject his plan to deliver up to $20,000 in relief to millions of borrowers, calling it “unthinkable.” Click here for more on what the ruling means for borrowers.

Biden will deliver remarks at 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday’s student loan decision and is expected to announce new actions to protect borrowers, a source told CNN.

In the another decision, the justices ruled in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado, who refused to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections. The ruling — rooted in free speech grounds — represents the latest victory for religious conservatives at the high court.” 

From CNN 

“CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic provides details from the room as the Justices read their decision on the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness plan.”

Source:CNN- at the U.S. Supreme Court.

From CNN 

Before I tell you what I think of the student loans decision from SCOTUS, I’m going to give you a couple of ways that people could look at it.

If you look at SCOTUS decisions as a hyper-partisan, especially when it comes to executive orders, to cut to the chase (to put it cleanly) you would probably say something like: “It’s perfectly legal and constitutional when our side does it. But when the other side does it, it’s completely illegal and unconstitutional and the President should be impeached for that.”

To give you an example of that from the Democratic Party: when President Donald Trump back in 2018-19, tried to appropriate money by himself and go around Congress on that, even though Congress (House & Senate has the sole authority or appropriate under the U.S. Constitution) Democrats, especially partisan Democrats, called that illegal and unconstitutional. And of course they’re right about that. But Republicans said that President Trump had the authority to do that under some made up emergency power of the President.

To give you a Republican example: when President Joe Biden tried to unilaterally wipe out student debt and just write it off the Federal Government’s book and declare that all these Americans who are buried in government student loans, no longer have to pay any of that back, Republicans said that was illegal and unconstitutional and perhaps some Republicans not just Representatives Lauren Boebert and Marjorie T. Greene, we’re calling for President Biden’s impeachment on that. While Democrats said that of course President Biden has the constitutional authority to legislate from The White House on this.

I mean if you are an Independent today or even just an Independent Democrat or Republican whose a member of one party, perhaps simply because you dislike the other party a little more, it’s easy to see why Americans hate politicians and politics today, even if they overwhelmingly reelect their own U.S. Representative over and over again.

There’s just too much partisan, political, garbage (to be kind) for any honest American to try to have to put up with. Washington already gets too much hot air from its own summers, because of all the heat and humidity it gets. But add Washington politicians to the environment and it makes breathing in Washington a luxury for too many Washingtonians.

As far as student loan forgiveness or what I prefer to call college affordability: there’s a New York Times (of all newspapers) opinion piece from 2016 called: “Why Free College is Not Free” I only mention that to state the obvious.

There are very good reasons why a good, 4 year college education, can cost the average American 150,000 dollars, for four years. What you can learn from college (if you bother to pay attention and can put your phone down long enough and stay out of off the coffee house long enough) lasts and benefits you for a lifetime. You can get the skills and knowledge that you need there to put yourself in position to never have to worry about finding a good job and earning a good living in America. Of course that shouldn’t be free, because it takes so much money to teach and train all those young Americans.

President Biden would be smart to take this SCOTUS decision and use it as a very good lesson. You want to make college affordable for every American, regardless of their income level, their parents income level, their race, ethnicity, gender, etc, you have to work with Congress on that.

President Biden could start with the Senate when it comes to things like personal college accounts, that people could set up for their kids the day that their kid is born, that could be matched by their employer and perhaps even the Federal Government and make those accounts free for low-income parents. And then see if you can find some reasonable Republicans in the House and try to work with them on this issue as well. But only Congress can legislate, not the President, it’s in the Constitution.