One option for Biden is to simply ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling and continue with student loan forgiveness. Likewise, universities should ignore the court and admit who they want. SCOTUS has no enforcement power in these areas.
SCOTUS has no enforcement power period. They’ve shown themselves to be an illegitimate body incapable of performing their duties so I don’t see why in the flying fuck we should listen to a damn thing they say. We are in a constitutional crisis right fucking now and by accepting their rulings we only make it worse.
Thank goodness. This action was simply forcing debt from the person who accrued it to somebody else.
Biden using the HEROES act to justify this action was bullshit. And the President can’t just allocate billions of dollars for this - this expenditure needs to go through Congress.
Even former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) once said, “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.”
My greater concern here is less how they ruled, an more that they ruled along “party lines”. This isn’t a situation where the court is reaching outside its mandate (as some could argue with social rights issues) - they are adjudicating a fundamental check and balance between the Legislature and Executive. There really should be some consensus on how this works.
The court is a sham at this point. Damn near every ruling these days is a party line vote and it’s disappointing. Why even haven them hear cases if we already know the outcome?
The odd thing is that when they do agree, they still get it wrong: their ruling against faithless electors was unanimous, but in their statements they justify the decision by saying that if they ruled based on the text there would be chaos. Folks, that’s not your job. If the constitution needs to be fixed it needs to be fixed through proper channels. You don’t get to decide something is constitutional (or not) just because you like it (or not).
