After Joe Biden invented the executive branch authority of blanket student loan amnesty, several states sued. They weren’t grinches; what Biden did was illegal and unconstitutional. A judge in Texas just agreed with them.
“Whether the Program constitutes good public policy is not the role of this Court to determine. Still, no one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch, or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States,” United States District Judge Mark Pittman wrote.
No joy for Joe on the Student Loan thing, not that he cares much about anything but ice cream and a nap. He was just reading what they put on the ‘prompter. And while you can probably “phone and pen” a lot of crap into existence, putting taxpayers on the hook for another trillion (or whatever it costs) only comes with a process.
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone. Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government…The Court is not blind to the current political division in our country. But it is fundamental to the survival of our Republic that the separation of powers as outlined in our Constitution be preserved. And having interpreted the HEROES Act, the Court holds that it does not provide ‘clear congressional authorization’ for the Program proposed by the Secretary,”
Biden’s handlers’ plan was to claim that “student loan forgiveness … is legal under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act), which grants the Department of Education the authority to cancel so much debt for so many people because of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
I know, what isn’t authorized under “The Pandemic™.”
Public Health and all that. But the Founders understood that the best thing for public health was to secure natural rights from infringement by the State no matter what. Sure, they almost immediately ignored that, and we’ve been back and forth about it ever since, but the separation of powers gives that necessary division teeth the Machine politicians have been pulling as fast as they can.
Another problem is that “Biden’s” program is discriminatory, unequal, and unfair. There are loads of “education loans” that are excluded whose product was or will be far more valuable to the nation than another Liberal arts degree in Left-Handed Albino Lesbian Studies.
Businesses invest millions on trade school and other loans to bring up qualified candidates to fill jobs. Wouldn’t it make more sense to do even more to incentivize that? It would. And that could be a tax benefit to the job creator, not an expense for taxpayers. But the Left gains nothing politically from this, so they’ll never try to phone and pen it into existence. Instead, that idea will have to slug its way through the legislature, and even if it became law, the Dems or some so-called Soros-funded non-profited would have lawyers lined up to challenge it before the ink was dry.
As it stood, the loan bailout was a sop to likely Liberal voters and a recommitment to the Marxist mills doing business as Higher Education to continue jacking up tuition that is then laundered back into the Progressive movement as cash, activists, and brain trust doing business as lifetime Dem party donors.
A few states (not mine) stepped up to say, excuse me, this is dodgy as hell, and they happened to find a judge who agreed. It could have gone the other way, wandering like a liquored-up Kennedy until it tripped over an unconscious blonde to fall at the feet of the US Supreme Court, where the outcome should be certain but is not.
As of today, “Biden’s” Student Loan bail-out is the unconscious blonde who already drank the spiked Kool-Aid. At some point, they’ll try to wake her up, and while she may not remember what happened, they’ll make sure she has their story straight, so the party will start again – right after “she” figures out what the range burning sensation is and what happened to her panties.
