Maybe Chief Justice John Roberts should change his title to Chief Social Engineer in light of the Supreme Court’s insistence on telling Americans how they should live. Today’s 6-3 striking down of President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is the latest example of the high court’s steady expansion of its authority.
At issue in the two cases decided by the Court today was President Biden’s desire to continue the relief afforded to student loan borrowers by a pause in student loan repayments under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students law (“HEROES Act”), by having the Secretary of Education forgive student loan debt amounting to some $400 billion dollars.
Two plaintiffs challenged the plan to forgive this amount, which would have benefitted 40 million Americans.

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