#Personally I think that the court decision is very nearly total gibberish

[morlock-holmes]

Starting to get really pissed off about the way people talk about Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Here's the authority he relied on, the Heroes Act, 20 U.S. Code § 1098bb:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless enacted with specific reference to this section, the Secretary of Education (referred to in this part as the “Secretary”) may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs under title IV of the Act [20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.] as the Secretary deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency to provide the waivers or modifications authorized by paragraph (2)."

This is the same authority Betsy DeVos relied on to pause loan payments during the pandemic.

I don't want to hear another person pontificate about this ever again without being able to tell me:

Why they think the statute does not straightforwardly allow the loan forgiveness program;

Why the Supreme Court felt that the statute didn't allow the loan forgiveness program;

Why Biden should have known the court would rule the way it did;

Whether you think Biden had an alternative authority to enact a loan forgiveness program and if so what that authority is.

The fact that most people can't seem to do any of these things but still confidently talk about how obvious it is that Biden never wanted student loan forgiveness in the first place makes me want to throw a chair through a window.