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The majority then announced, with an opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, that it was overthrowing the student loan forgiveness program, granting a request from six Republican state attorneys general on behalf of a loan servicer, the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, that did not want to be used as a plaintiff. Without MOHELA, the states did not have standing to bring the suit—they are not directly harmed.

Roberts and the majority weren’t going to be bothered by the fact that their plaintiff was an unwilling participant in this highly partisan scheme. "By law and function, MOHELA is an instrumentality of Missouri ... The [debt forgiveness] plan will cut MOHELA's revenues, impairing its efforts to aid Missouri college students,” Roberts wrote. “This acknowledged harm to MOHELA in the performance of its public function is necessarily a direct injury to Missouri itself."

Never mind that in oral arguments the state admitted that MOHELA wasn’t aiding Missouri college students because it hadn’t paid into that fund in 15 years, and “said in its own financial documents that it doesn’t plan to make any payments in the future.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m incredibly liberal but to be honest,

Literally every time I see this it's followed by insert right-wing view/talking point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because no one is all-left or all-right, or all-Liberal or all-Conservative. It's not any form of doublethink to, say, support the right of a business to choose who they do business with - while also believing that we should be closing tax loopholes on businesses and corporations so that they pay a fairer share of the US tax bill. That's just one example, but others exist. No one I've ever met that was sane fully supports every point of the party line they usually side with. You will also see cases where people say, "I'm conservative but to be honest, liberal/left-wing talking point". It's how sane people work.