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Biden Has Canceled Student Debt for Nearly 4 Million

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean exactly what they're doing? It's mostly a job for Whitehouse lawyers now, deciding just how much they can get through (each time they chip away) without ending up in from of judges again. That's why every few weeks there another segment of cancellations happening.

[–] gAlienLifeform -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, nothing at all like what they're doing here, what I'm talking about is completely separate from these individualized cases. We need universal student debt relief that addresses everyone who was victimized by this predatory system. The vast majority are not getting any help and there's no indication the Biden administration is doing anything about that problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The executive can't make laws + the court says a law has to me made = Biden can't do that.

This is day 1 civics class stuff.

[–] gAlienLifeform -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Issuing an executive order isn't a law + the court hasn't considered other arguments the administration could and should make = Biden isn't even trying

Guess that's day two civics class stuff

e; better phrasing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Issuing an executive order also isn't effective

[–] gAlienLifeform 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, I missed the supreme Court case or legislation that stripped the president of the power to issue executive orders, surely you've got a link to that momentous development?

e; actually, I think that would take a constitutional amendment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's not what "effective" means.