EDITORIAL

This may startle some of our more conservative readers, but I’m actually in agreement with the dissenting opinion in Biden v. Nebraska, the recent 6-3 decision that struck down the Administration’s student loan forgiveness program.

I’ve got a bone to pick with Biden on this, mind you. It’s clearly Presidential overreach, a cash giveaway that, if the Court hadn’t stopped it, Congress would have. Since he obviously knew this going into it, that makes it a stunt to get votes — and a particularly cruel one, since an awful lot of people out there are very deeply in debt during what anyone but a Boomer would have to admit are some of the worst economic times since the Depression.

BUT. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson are in the right, and the other six Justices in the wrong.

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