The Rule Of Law Prevails

The Supreme Court’s final decision involved Joe Biden’s student loan scheme. 

You’ll recall that Biden made a major campaign promise to forgive $20,000 of student loan debt. Congress never approved such a plan. Then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Biden didn’t have the authority to do it on his own, and only Congress could appropriate the necessary funds.

Well, Biden’s bureaucrats got creative. They decided that the COVID pandemic emergency allowed them to use the post-9/11 HEROES Act to forgive student loan debt. But the HEROES Act was meant to offer relief to troops in combat by making certain “modifications” to their student loans. 

Today, the justices reminded the president of Pelosi’s admonition, and ruled 6-to-3 that Biden’s $400 billion student loan scheme was an unconstitutional power grab that far exceeded his authority and required congressional authorization.

For the record, the Republican-led House and the Democrat-controlled Senate specifically voted this year to reject Biden’s student loan scheme, precisely because it was such an unprecedented power grab. 

Remember how Democrats howled in outrage when Donald Trump declared a national emergency to reallocate a few billion dollars from various government accounts (military construction and drug interdiction) for the border wall? 

Well, Biden was trying to claim $400 billion that was never allocated at all. This was a serious violation of the separation of powers and a gross abuse of power!