Federal Appeals Court Blocks Biden's Student Loan Repayment Plan

And now the Secretary of Education has paused the loan repayments for everybody impacted by lawless Republicans in robes. Beautiful.
Education Department freezes student loan payments for 8M borrowers

 

For the record, there is very little Ivy League debt. Most normal Americans who get in, go for free. The people who have to pay their own way, can afford to pay their own way.

 

I still have $120k from my Northwestern MBA. I keep it on the books because the interest rate is extremely low and my investments outearn the interest payments.

But if Biden thinks you guys should pay it… I’ll take it. BIG 10 school, so not Ivy.

 

Depends on whether you’re looking at undergrad or grad school, and how recent it is.

While most of the Ivies currently have pretty good financial aid for undergrad, that’s a somewhat recent development (they historically gave no “merit aid” and looked to FAFSA for need, and I’ll respectfully suggest that FAFSA’s assessment of ability to pay, at least as of when it was relevant to me, didn’t necessarily reflect actual ability to pay well over $100,000 for an Ivy education - most people presumably are not selling or mortgaging their house to send their child to college even if FAFSA assumed they could). As a result, Ivies were historically very reasonable for the very rich or the very poor, and cripplingly expensive for folks in the upper middle class.

On grad or professional school, there is far less financial aid available for most of them.

 

Depends on the program. Doctoral students usually are fully funded with a stipend. It's different for law students. But even then, many of the people have a scholarship that defrays some of the costs. And they're generally not eligible for these programs because of the money they're making or they're in public service and already benefiting from LRAP and PSLF.

 

I don't much care what Republican SCOTUS does. They continue to invent "law" to allow them to overturn popular policies the people voted for. What they've been doing in admin law is nothing short of an attack on separation of powers. I have zero respect for those Republican politicians.

You can keep projecting your fascist leanings on the rest of us because Biden committed the crime of using government to make people's lives less bad.

 

Sounds like Roe v Wade. The liberal Supreme Court invented that law.

 

Fangirl gets excited because some borrowers get usurious debt lessened but plans to vote for a guy who never pays any contractor what he owes them. Said candidate won't even pay the venues in which he holds his gestapo rallies so he ends up having to hold them somewhere that an assassin can climb up on a rooftop and take potshots at him. Makes perfect sense.

 

so how good is your arithmetic? Because I’m counting 6 republicans on the court that decided Roe v Wade. In what world is that a “liberal” court?


During the Roe v. Wade case, which was decided in 1973, the political makeup of the Supreme Court was as follows:

1. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger - Appointed by President Richard Nixon (Republican)
2. Justice William O. Douglas - Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
3. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. - Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
4. Justice Potter Stewart - Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
5. Justice Byron White - Appointed by President John F. Kennedy (Democrat)
6. Justice Thurgood Marshall - Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
7. Justice Harry Blackmun - Appointed by President Richard Nixon (Republican)
8. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. - Appointed by President Richard Nixon (Republican)
9. Justice William H. Rehnquist - Appointed by President Richard Nixon (Republican)

 

Biden won't be there for long. But it is funny how many times the Liberals say that Trump will step all over the Constitution when it's Biden doing trying to abuse the office of the presidency and the Constitution.

They also hate the fact that Trump redirected funds from the military budget to build part of the wall... Lol, he even mentioned that in last night's speech.

 

Sure. That's what the Supreme Court does.

 

Congress authorized this, just like it authorized Biden's student loan forgiveness. It's the Republican Supreme Court that's having to ignore the text of statutes to reach its preferred policy outcomes. Sad that you hate democracy.

Biden doesn't need to get it passed in Congress. Congress already passed it and delegated the authority. Congress knows how to rescind that authority and can do so at any time.

Republicans in robes are spitting on the Constitution by overstepping their boundaries in violation of separation of powers. When they ignore the plain text of statutes to block executive policy they don't like, they are not acting as judges.

There's an election coming up. Vote him out if you don't like it. Instead, we have Republicans in robes ensuring that even when Republicans lose elections, Democrats aren't allowed to implement the policies voters supported. And they're not doing it on the basis of any right enshrined in the Constitution.

 

Good. I don't want to pay anybody's loans. No one agreed to pay my medical bills after I had cancer a few years ago. Even with good medical insurance I have paid well over 15k out of pocket.

 

You're not having to pay anybody's loans.

 

I don't. The money is pissed away all the same, but at least a wall never killed people. It is a totally useless and a pointless insult to anyone with half of a functioning brain, but still not a tool of death.