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Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The president is free to kill his opponents, but he can’t forgive debt? Your corruption is showing Supreme Court.

So Biden could just dismiss the debt and say it was an official act. To be clear, he simply lacks the will.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Supreme Court gets to decide what is an official act. And he can’t dismiss supreme court’s justices… however…

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And he can’t dismiss supreme court’s justices…

But he can have them wasted now.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the Supreme Court agrees.

[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If he takes out the supreme court, it doesn't seem there's anyone left to disagree ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The people that replace them may have some strongly worded opin...

Okay well maybe the person who replaces that one will...

Yeah looks like the supreme Court is fine with it

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm just a pleb, but wouldn't his official acts be legal. It was ruled as legal, he killed them, then the new justice ruled it unconstitutional.

[–] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

He can dismiss them illegally and say it was an official act...

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unsurprising since he almost single-handedly caused the student loan crisis when he took a gigantic payout from MBNA to pen the bankruptcy protection act of 2005. This legislation prevented student loans from being disbursed in bankruptcy.

I’ll say it again:

I hope Joe Biden burns in hell for subjecting all future generations to indentured servitude in the form of exploitative student loans with astronomical interest rates and inescapable bankruptcy clauses.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the genocide in palestine is already sufficient for hell.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh absolutely. Don’t get me started on the myriad of issues that I didn’t mention. It was impossible for me to bite my tongue when people were trying to shove him down my throat as a “decent man”.

These are exactly the same people that are currently attempting to repair war criminal George W. Bush’s image:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujAs1disEwg

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

That is exactly what he should do. Then dismiss any Justice who disagrees with him as an official act as well.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ruling was that the president is immune from criminal punishment over offical acts not that the president can pass any laws they want.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arguably, passing a law without congress would be an unofficial act and breaking the law.

At that point, he could be impeached, and after impeachment, charged with a crime related to the impeachment.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Who determines whether it's an unofficial act? The same judges with the same fascist bias?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Exactly.

He's already unilaterally cancelled bits of student debt for several categories of people.

The SCOTUS is just giving him cover.