Below is my column in the Hill on the curious position of Democratic members of Congress opposing the use of the democratic process to address the college loan forgiveness plan. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bizarrely condemned the Supreme Court for usurping congressional authority by supporting congressional authority in the student loan case. She renewed her calls for retaliation through subpoenas, court packing, and even impeachment. She previously said that she did not understand why we needed a Supreme Court. Like Sen. Chuck Schumer, she was outraged that the Court would require a president to go to Congress before giving away roughly half a trillion dollars in loan forgiveness.
Here is the column:
“Disappointing and cruel.” Those words from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Biden administration’s loan forgiveness program may say more than the opinion itself.
The court’s “cruelty” was in supporting Congress’s core constitutional power of the purse. Schumer’s disappointment in having to address and vote on the forgiveness of hundreds of billions of dollars in loans speaks volumes about the collapse of our constitutional values.
The court’s decision on the merits of the case was hardly a surprise. President Biden was using the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003 to order the largest loan forgiveness program in U.S. history. The law is only a few pages long and was intended to assist military personnel deployed abroad in combat zones.
The idea of using that law in order to avoid getting congressional approval for such a massive expenditure was laughable. The Office of Legal Counsel considered the theory and issued a memo stating that it would be unconstitutional.
In his response to the court, Biden declared that “the hypocrisy is stunning” and that the court had “misinterpreted the Constitution.” However, during the last presidential campaign, Biden himself acknowledged that this effort would be unconstitutional.
Chief Justice John Roberts even cited former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the opinion for stating the obvious: “People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.”
Biden, however, knew that there was no way Congress would approve the loan forgiveness. Many citizens objected that they decided to learn a trade rather than go to college, and no one is suggesting that they should be forgiven their debts. Others paid their student loans back and felt like they were the victims of a bait-and-switch.
While many of us could not see any plausible way that this law could be used for such a clearly unintended purpose, University of California law professor Dalié Jiménez filed an amicus brief declaring that the HEROES Act “is as clear as sunlight” as a basis for forgiving federal student debt for nearly everyone.
The justices failed to see the light. Instead, a 6-3 majority again declared that Biden was violating the Constitution and had to go to Congress.
The same court that had just ruled overwhelmingly to support Biden’s immigration policies turned around and issued a devastating and detailed opinion as to why no such authority existed in this case.
Biden was undeterred after that ruling and promised, “I will stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver [the] relief.” Perhaps, but the Constitution has once again stopped him from becoming a government unto himself.
That brings us back to Schumer. James Madison designed a constitutional system with a frank understanding of the factional and petty impulses of politicians. Yet he believed that he had created a system of checks and balances that could rely on the institutional self-interest of members to jealously protect their powers under Article I. Madison believed that, despite party or ideological affiliations, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
In all of his study of the ancient Greek and Roman states and contemporary politics, Madison never encountered the likes of Schumer and his colleagues. Their ambition runs elsewhere, and they view the support of their authority to be an act of constitutional “cruelty.” They are calling on a president to turn them into institutional nonentities — legislators who engage in a type of empty performance art as the president governs alone.
It is a curious position for those who have campaigned on protecting “democracy.” These same figures are now calling on a president to avoid presenting this major program to Congress because they know that the majority would oppose it.
Ever accommodating, Biden is now saying that he will attempt to accomplish the same loan forgiveness by taking a “new path.” That path, of course, is not to the co-equal branch just down the street from where his lives. It is rather through a different statute, the Higher Education Act of 1965. The HEA, however, could be used only for a far more limited number of debt holders, and even this would raise new legal questions. The HEA was rejected previously because the HEROES Act was still viewed as a better avenue for the administration.
In comparison to just going to Congress down the street, the “new path” is like going from D.C. to New York by way of Los Angeles.
All of this is meant to avoid the one option left to the president — going to Congress. After all, the last thing you want in the defense of democracy is to have an outbreak of democratic process.
What is left, to paraphrase Schumer, is a cruel joke. But the ultimate joke is on the American people. Half of their representatives in Congress are struggling to make themselves (and those they represent) entirely irrelevant at this key moment. That is a constitutional debt that should not be forgiven.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
You really can’t blame James Madison for not taking into account the likes of Chuck Schumer. Madison lived decades before Marx crystalized dumb speak. And it took even more decades for dupers to get control of a significant number of dupes to hit critical stooge mass and thus control the Democrat party in the US.
“Madison lived decades before Marx crystalized dumb speak. ”
Maybe. He was living during the Enlightenment, so that may have provided some insulation. Sophistry and surely other kinds of dumb speak has been a plague since before it was given a name in Ancient Greece.
Did someone call me?
Diogenes,
Witty! Very, very witty!
😉
Not exactly. Madison lived during the final years of the period Europeans call the Enlightment. Whether he was influenced by it i debatable.
Why do you think it is debatable that Madidon was influenced by the Enlightenment? Not influenced even by Locke?
“Whether [Madison] was influenced by [the Enlightenment] i (sic) debatable.”
You go with “debatable.” I’ll go with Madison’s biographer, Terence Ball:
As a young man, Madison “was immersed in the liberalism of the Enlightenment and converted to eighteenth-century political radicalism.”
That “debatable” is a religionist’s attempt to sever America’s founding from its Enlightenment roots of reason and individualism.
Sam,
“converted to eighteenth-century political radicalism”
To what does this refer? Republicanism? What perspectives or authors?
LOL. That was as clear, and funny, an explanation of political physics one could ever hope for.
After just finishing reading Paul Johnson’s Modern Times, it appears to me that we can either contend with the prog/left in this nation in the manner of that chosen bt Neville Chamberlain or in the manner necessitated, ultimately, by George Patton.
What is the legal theory for using the HEA to accomplish mass debt transfer after the recent decision saying that this is a major question that Congress must decide on clearly and specifically?
What is the legal theory for using the HEA to ….
Daniel, surely you do not believe that Biden’s handlers do anything based on legal theory. Like Obama, Biden’s handlers (likely Obama’s “plumbers”) do what they do out of hubris and lust for power. Had Obama followed legal theory, (i.e. US Constitution), we would not be hearing that loud, dissonant sucking sound in our public square: a black hole consuming us
NB: Study: Most Student Debt Belongs To High-Wealth Households
– Forbes, Jan 2022
But while the value of education is high on average, the returns to postsecondary education are also uneven. In a project for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, I calculated the net financial value of 30,000 bachelor’s degrees and found that 28% of them do not have an expected positive return. While a bachelor’s degree pays off on average, some students either drop out before completion or choose a low-paying major, meaning their education may not confer the economic benefits they’d hoped for.
These instances of educational investment that fails to justify its costs are the source of most student loan distress. Loan defaults, for instance, are concentrated among college dropouts. Borrowers in low-paying fields of study experience higher rates of loan delinquency. Rather than broad loan forgiveness, reforms to the federal student loan program should be pursued with this subset of cases in mind.
Re:”Estovir says: “What is the legal theory for using the HEA to …” Well writ! Of course, ‘the usual suspects’ amongst us continue to disparage their detractors notwithstanding the ‘in your face’ study you provide of which there are many.
Jonathan: You learn more from your mistakes than your successes. Biden learned that hard lesson after his defeat in the SC over the student loan-relief controversy. But you use that to attack the Dems and unnecessarily try to create divisions over the issue: “Many citizens objected that they decided to learn a trade rather than go to college, and no one is suggesting that they should be forgiven their debts”. Creating class resentment does not contribute to a resolution of the problem. And the problem is that many young people, particularly those of color, who have the grades don’t attend college only because their families can’t afford it–and don’t want to incur further debt to pay for a quality education. So it’s a Hobson’s choice and students decide to give up their career goals for jobs at What-a-Burger that will contribute to the family income. In the richest country in the world this should not happen!
In her dissent Justice Kagan pointed out that the 6-3 conservative majority “substitutes itself for Congress and the Executive Branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness”. In an ideal world Congress would have resolved the issue long ago. But don’t expect the GOP controlled House to step up to the plate. They prefer the current “have and have-not” educational system where the opportunity for a college education is reserved for the wealthy and well connected. The GOP doesn’t really care about education–except to cut spending for programs addressing race and LGBTQ+ issues. And it gets a lot of campaign money from the banking and other predatory student loan institutions. So the grid-lock will continue. Maybe next year we will see a change if the Dems take back control of the House.
@Dennis McIntyre: I offer you the same response as I did the other ‘usual suspect’.:””””@Anonymous: Re; “Turley cracking on Biden for trying to help people who are truly financially stressed” The court ruled on Executive over-reach. Not the intent. There was a Democrat controlled House and Senate which might have enacted the legislation necessary. Pelosi spoke to it being clearly the province of the House. Well they didn’t, did they!!. Yet we have to deal with your echoing “Bidenshit”, because you think your audience is as braindead as he does. Well it’s not!””” Should have been 2020, NOT maybe next year! Do us a favor and DO hold your breath.
In an ideal world Congress would have resolved the issue long ago. But don’t expect the GOP controlled House to step up to the plate.
More idiocy. Pelosi couldn’t get a majority of DEMOCRATS to sign onto the “debt relief” (bribe). Regardless, The intent is irrelevant to the Constitution.
Dennis, learn something. Sign onto Hillsdale College website. Tons of free college level content on the constitution. You desperately need the help
Iowan2,
One thing that seems to be obvious, TDS is a real mental health issue.
It also alter one’s perception of reality into something bizarre.
So true! Friends with TDS are truly not well. It’s concerning.
Those watching MSNBC are being MK Ultra’d.
There’s no other explanation for how insanely irrational people have gone over all things Trump. And at the same time, they know nothing about what is going on in the Biden administration. Zippo. All they know is Trump bad. It’s nonstop Trump hate 24/7.
“So it’s a Hobson’s choice and students decide to give up their career goals for jobs at What-a-Burger that will contribute to the family income.”
It isn’t just a choice between college or working at a fast food joint. Becoming a skilled tradesman can mean hardly (if any) debt and those jobs can be very well-paying, depending on the profession. Through learning a skilled trade, people can become small business owners and can become quite wealthy. Booker T. Washington advocated this route rather than sending people straight to college. He felt it built a better foundation for the long term.
Expecting coddled safe space demoncrats to do real life hands on callouses work to better living conditions for their fellow man is a pipe dream.
Their “job” in that case is agitating for HUD money to destroy upscale neighborhoods, demanding corporations write up NGO funds for their personal pleasure looting, and screaming racist bigot ten thousand times before passing out at night.
Excuse me, who is creating “class resentments”? Democrats are! Joe Biden is! Why should Joe Plumber pay off someone else’s loan? Why should taxpayers shoulder this debt? The solution is to seize the endowments! Make the schools deal with the outrageous tuition they are charging these kids for subpar education. It’s extortion. The universities are causing the problem, make them solve the problem, not the taxpayers. Seize the endowments. let the colleges deal with it. Problem solved.
Also, doesn’t “Dr Jill” sing praises of the value of community college education? Anyone can go to CC. Everything any kid ever wanted to learn can be learned online, no need to attend a college in person. No one is being prevented an “education” if they really want one.
Dennis: thank you. Then, there’s the fact that most of the enormous balances touted by Republicans represents nothing but late fees, penalties and interest compounded upon interest, rather than the actual amount borrowed. Then, the fact that the “bad debt buyers” out there heavily contribute to Republicans. See, they can grab the debtors’ tax refunds by just filing a little form with the IRS claiming the loan is in arrears and that they are entitled to confiscate the refund. And, the confiscated tax refunds are applied first to current interest, penalties and late fees, so that the balance doesn’t even get touched. If the confiscated refund isn’t enough to cover the current penalties, late fees and interest, the balance of that amount is added to the outstanding principal, and that bloated balance begins to accrue interest, too. And, of course, the interest rate is far above prime. Guaranteed student loans are largely not dischargeable in bankruptcy, even if the student is unemployed or even disabled. This is why some people will never live to see their loans repaid, will never see a tax refund and the greedy “bad debt buyers” have guaranteed income for years and years at a rate above prime so long as the former student is employed. This zombie debt is what prevents many former students from buying a home, taking vacations and even starting a family, and for this reason, it does affect all of us. Then, there are those students who didn’t know any better than to sign up for classes at “for profit” universities that are not accredited. That means that any credits earned at such institutions will not transfer to an accredited university. For programs like nursing, for example, the student can never sit for boards if the schools is not accredited and cannot transfer credits to an accredited institution, so the money was wasted. Many people, myself included, believe this is a form of fraud. Why incur debt to go to an unaccredited school unless you didn’t realize that the credits you earned are relatively useless toward earning a degree that will benefit you? Many of these schools have been forced to close.
Gigi
Are you even aware that the payouts were to be in the form of a check to the borrower??? I suppose you were ok with that, too?
Credit card companies never want their borrowers to ever pay off their debt either, so should the rest of us pay it for them??? Aside from suspending the Constitution, proponents of this utterly ridiculous scheme must suspend all logic to argue its merits.
“[T]he court had ‘misinterpreted the Constitution.’”
Is there any concept or institution that the Left won’t pilfer, in its frenzy to satisfy a desire?
The fact is that there is no constitutional authority for a president to unilaterally wipe out a citizen’s debt. And, worse, to compel others to pay for that debt.
Worse than that, it’s their sheep infused broken brained woke collegiate constituency from already higher class earners, so they are forming a future army of woke griefing grifters with rabid treasury theft indoctrinated into their outlook, 32.3 TRILLION and counting.
Joe provides the safe space path. No responsibilities, and a lifetime of crybaby thieving activism.
Both Congress and the Courts rejected the Democrat’s naked pandering to young voters, so one would think they’d finally give up but apparently . . . one would be wrong!
Well, the simplest “fix” would be to remove the exemption of student loans from bankruptcy proceedings.
After all, Joe Biden as senator was one of those who voted for 39A Higher Education Act of 1976, which is when that occurred. (Sure, there is a hardship provision which you have to file as well, though how successful that is I cannot determine.)
Sure, there would be some downsides, such as the deletion of useless majors and higher education might have some accountability…
pot meetskettle
It is more simple
All colleges have more than enough endowments to fund the loans (paid to themselves) The collateral to that loan is the diploma they hand to the student at the completion of their degree. . The student can declare bankruptcy if that’s what they want to do to their credit scores.
Grinnel college in Iowa has $2.5 Billion in pocket, just under the $3.5 Billion held by the University of Iowa. Yes there is more than enough capital in the system to fund college attendance.
Explain again why tax payers are on the Hook for the cost of college education.
Car companies got into the loan business when banks standards were too strict to capture potential buyers with questionable credit Scores
It is just amazing how deep the hole goes with the blundering doofus mobster biden
We have a U.S. Supreme Court that believes that the Founding Fathers created the Bill of Rights – which includes 2nd Amendment gun rights – was created primarily for corporations “corporate citizens” (not humans) under the “Citizens United” ruling. In this interpretation humans have FEWER rights than “corporate citizens”. Apparently in the 1700’s King George of England was abusing corporations not American colonists, so the Bill of Rights were created primarily for corporations not human gun owners.
We have a high court that allowed Ronald Reagan’s Torture Treaty to be violated with impunity. This is the supreme law of the United States under Article VI of the Constitution and also federal law. DOJ simply renamed torture to “Enhanced Interrogation”. For over 200 years, lower courts were required to follow higher courts – except for torture, blacklisting and other cruel treatment. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled detainees could challenge Habeas corpus rulings in court, the federal lower appeals courts simply refused to follow the higher court.
Today in 2023, first time in over 200 years, we have plaintiffs being granted “legal standing” to start court cases using “hypotheticals”. This same case, they cited the 14th Amendment which was created to counter institutional racism following the Civil War. Think of how that harms all future court cases.
Whatever this court is, it’s not conservative!
“. . . outraged that the Court would require a president to go to Congress . . .”
So when there’s a D in charge of the Oval Office, it’s an Imperial Presidency. When an R, a handcuffed presidency.
That’s not how a statesman thinks. That’s how a power-luster operates.
My Fellow Americans, particularly We Republicans.
WE have been fools, The Dems and Free Floaters have been right.
Our: Money, Spending, Balance, Political Difference, are all for not.
WE have been ‘conditioned’ to abide to these Fiscal and Monetary ‘constraints’.
It’s like wearing Underwear, No one told you to wear Underwear, It’s not mandated,
NO,No,no … We have been ‘Conditioned’ to wear them. The Dems are right, throw away the ‘proverbial ‘Fig Leaf’,
Let It All Hang Out, GO Commando!
Abolish the: IRS, The Central Banks, The Treasuries, Ownership, words like: Mine, Own, Ours, Private, Personal, …
Loan Forgiveness, Reparations, Limitless Debt Ceilings, Sovereignty, are just ‘mentally manufactured constraints’. The Numbers aren’t real, they just keep US focused on an imaginary line, and keep Us from killing each other.
Forgiveness the Love of Jesus and Allah. So let it go! Let the Spice of Life Flow, ALL IS FORGIVEN
Life is for Living Free, Free for All, Freedom, Free at Last
As was commented on yesterday, and again today.
Why has college gotten so expensive? Strange that in DC, a very expensive debating club. The question has been banned from polite, or not so polite conversation.
The dog that didn’t bark, again provides the answer to the riddle.
“Why has college gotten so expensive?”
It seems that colleges are acting way too much like businesses trying to attract “customers” rather than educate people. Shared dorm rooms with shared dorm floor bathrooms and a shared common room used to be good enough. Now, everyone apparently needs their own room, their own bathroom, an apartment-like living space which is more expensive. Education used to be the focus, now it’s essentially comfort and entertainment. Oh, and safe spaces, too, because everybody apparently has mental health problems so more services are needed for everyone.
Prairie Rose,
Well said.
As myself and others have commented on other columns by the good professor, higher education is a business.
Upstate Farmer,
But it should not be run just like a business. That undermines the mission to educate. Schools should be solvent. But the focus on solvency should not detract from their unique mission, not to the detriment of building truly well-educated people.
The mission of a business is, in the end, just to make money (though it should be done honestly and ethically). On a related sidenote, it seems to me that SDGs and ESG twist that mission into yet more ways to make or manipulate money.
P.S. Thank you for the kind words, Upstate Farmer. I was ungracious for not thanking you in my reply.
Yes, it is unfortunate that higher ed is being run as a business. When the value of things are primarily determined by the almighty bottom dollar they and those who do the figuring lose some if not all of their soul. 🙁
The increasing cost of a college education has outpaced the rate of inflation for decades. In addition to the items that you mention, the cost has increased by a big factor as the result of the DEI bureaucracy.
The fact that we have three justices on the court who think that what Biden did was fine with his actions on student loan forgiveness should be concerning. Our country, even though we dodged a bullet here, continues to careen out of control towards the abyss.
Randy, this is how close we are to a dictatorship.
“. . . close we are to a dictatorship.”
Yes. It’s a dictatorship of need. Others need debt relief, and you are merely a means to their ends.
Randy, the “little 3”, to paraphrase the NBA, will never vote against what they want in favor of what they know the Constitution demands.
If Kagan, the only possibility, had voted with the majority on the student loan case it would have been correct, but it would have denied the idiotic left (including Biden, who had previously spoken the truth on this issue, the ability to claim it was an illegitimate decision.
Hullbobby– “…will never vote against what they want in favor of what they know the Constitution demands.”
Excellent comment except that you assume the little 3 know what the Constitution demands. It is possible they simply don’t know, just as Justice Brown-Jackson did not know how to define “woman.” Many of the elite law schools have been churning out students well-trained in ideology, but lacking in Constitutional and statutory and even biological analytical skills, under the tutelage of such legal stalwarts as Lawrence Tribe. As the Professor points out, Professor Dalié Jiménezro of the formerly well-regarded University of California law school, saw no Constitutional issue with the President unilaterally erasing half a trillion dollars of student loan debt.
Dalié Jiménez #stillmasking
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She has per purple hair pic there too, still masking, can anyone believe it…
https://twitter.com/daliejimenez
She’s soliciting for 1 or 2 fulltime (probably unpaid knowing it’s a demoncrat) 1 year long positions on the student debt issue, so she’s going to be agitating for years
Dalié Jiménez #stillmasking
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Come work with me, @Econ_Marshall
, and Jonathan Glater @UC_SLLI
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on student debt issues!
This will be a remote, full-time, one-year position. Perfect for someone thinking of pursuing a PhD in econ, stats, public policy, economic sociology, or similar.
Democrats hate the Constitution, and Democracy. Every case, provides yet another example of Democrats seekin g power to control. Reading the dissents of the 3 ‘progressives’ exposes Justices seeking outcomes, doing the job the legislature refuses to do.
I do see this court attempting to breath life into federalism. 50 laboratories of democracy. They will not get everything right every time, but corrections will come much quicker. Like Roe, and Casey for example. If you are unsatisfied with your States Abortion policy, a new election 16 months away. The People will make the demands known. But that’s a bug not a feature to Dems. The seek authoritarian power. Have no stomach for the hard work of legislating.
Iowan2,
Well said.
I would not put it past them to manufacture some crisis to suspend the Constitution or get rid of it outright.
Based off some Democrats like AOC, they would be perfectly happy with getting rid of the SC and pass all kinds of authoritarian laws in their favor.
Why is tuition so high? In large part because of the easy availability of student loans. Tuition inflation far outpaces CPI inflation, and you get administrative bloat, with administrators like DIE gurus getting obscene salaries, and multi-million dollar weight rooms for athletes. Then students have to take loans to afford college, and they end up in debt. If the government had stayed out of it in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.
In addition to the above, Schumer and AOC represent the worst humanity has to offer.
My understanding is that the college loan game has turned into a scam. I went to school in the 80’s on scholarships and parent loans, which did need to be paid back. I also worked multiple jobs and graduated cum laude. Just saying. But back then, I seem to recall that college loans were a pretty good deal. Low interest rates etc. Somewhere along the line they turned into not such a good deal. So from my perspective, no I don’t want to pay for somebody else’s student loans. I also don’t want my super smart roofer friend whose parents were too cheap to pay for his college to pay for his friends’ loans. On the other hand if there was and is dirty work at the crossroads with the loans themselves, with the colleges scheming with banks to rip off students then that should be dealt with. So no forgiveness but perhaps refinancing. But at the end of the day, I was recruited by literally every Ivy League school. I went to a state school because I didn’t want to owe money. In a way, choosing a college is an IQ test in itself. If Johnny has no money and mediocre scores and wants to study English lit should Johnny a) take out a bunch of loans to go to Harvard b) take out smaller loans to go to a state school c) go to a community college d) learn a trade.
And then people in the mold of Dylan Mulvaney want to take out $50K in student loans to major in gender studies, and have blue-collar workers who never got that chance pay his debt.
Old man, now that’s fair.
@oldmanfromkansas: Re: “And then people in the mold of Dylan Mulvaney want to take out $50K in student loans loans to major in gender studies”..are obliged to wait tables because there’s no demand for that degree, and eventually run for and are elected to political office.
O’bama and Biden nationalized Student Loans years ago and claimed it would save the government billions by doing so…and how’s that working out? So I don’t think it’s colleges ‘scheming with banks to rip off students’ that’s the issue.
AOC is just an astoundingly ignorant child, and nothing she thinks or says is worthy of consideration or comment – other than recognizing her magnificent insignificance. Schumer, on the other hand, knows better. My only thought is that he recognizes that the leftist lunatic fringe has taken over the party and his future is dependent on convincing them that he is as ignorant and looney as them.
Unfortunately, our woke university system has convinced millions of former students that they are neither responsible nor accountable for the loans they knowingly took, and that the government forcing taxpayers to assume that responsibility and accountability in their place makes perfect sense.
But then these same people seem convinced that men can become pregnant, and a man can become a women just by declaring it to be so, so perhaps we’re seeing the beginning of the end of rational thought.
On the positive side, SCOTUS reconfirming the unconstitutionality of compelled speech may make more people realize that they cannot be compelled to play the gender and pronoun lunacy game. No individual can be compelled to enable, validate or celebrate someone’s gender or pronoun dysphoria, confusion or fetish.
John, I remember when Schumer made this statement, the three branches of government are the house, the senate and the Whitehouse. He really should know better.
Do you remember when Schumer screamed at Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court? He should have been censured. Too bad for New Yorkers that he was re-elected last year for another six-year term.
Catherine, Schumer should indeed have been censured. Then again, does being censured really affect politicians anymore? Holder was held in Contempt of Congress. He still wears it as a badge of honor.
Re: ““Disappointing and cruel.” Those words from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Biden administration’s loan forgiveness program may say more than the opinion itself.” It certainly does. It reflects pretty much what I’ve held for the political process. Take your caution from the electorate which raises the likes of a Schumer to high office. If the elected did not hold the intelligence of their constituencies in contempt, and were not justified in doing, so these scenarios might play out differently. It’s clear to him from which direction the wind is blowing in New York State, and he he knows just how to set his sails to keep his job.
Drop Chucky off at Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana for un cafecito and see how locals handle him. What could ever go wrong?
I want to tell you Gorsuch and I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price…..You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions
It is astonishing he wasn’t wearing his Mao suit when he threatened SCOTUS Justices. Maybe Merrick Garland was wearing it?
Loan Forgiveness – Just in time for the next Election-2024
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When do we get tax forgiveness?
Re :”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bizarrely condemned the Supreme Court” Tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
This is an election year and the Democrats need every vote they can get because they’re about to nominate a dementia-ridden warmonger who can’t walk two feet without either falling down or getting lost. Democrats are losing blacks and Hispanics, so they’re counting on the one demographic that may or may not show up to vote: students. Offer them money (or debt relief) and they’ll vote for you, because American students aren’t all that smart and don’t give a toss about the Constitution.
It’s not just students. My nephew is 40 years old with three kids to support and still paying back student loans. Likewise, I was in my 40s before my loans were paid and I could begin saving for a down payment on my first house. There should be far more information given to young adults about the financial wisdom – or lack thereof – of taking out loans to finance a degree that may not be worth it. In any case, the Democrats know that they have a huge constituency of people from age 22 to mid 40s who are hoping for debt relief. But they have to balance that against working class voters who never went to college and may resent loan forgiveness. Personally, I wouldn’t begrudge some debt relief, even though I paid mine back with no help from anyone. I was the first in my family to go to college and didn’t have any guidance from anyone, but overall my college education has been a benefit because I studied business and accounting with the goal of being employable.
Personally, I wouldn’t begrudge some debt relief, even though I paid mine back with no help from anyone.
There should be far more information given to young adults about the financial wisdom – or lack thereof – of taking out loans to finance a degree that may not be worth it.
This so simple. The college of your choice needs to loan the money to the student. Like ALL other loans, a financial assessment is done to create the loan, and repayment terms locked in. This is basic arithmetic. A simple app on your phone will provide the answer as to how long it will take to pay off the loan.
I’m thinking of a swear word right now and punching the tinman in the face before he gets to OZ and gets his- well, thieves heart, but your halo is so big and you got your bell rang angel wings that are in the way…
You swear words get to go f n s party your brains out make lifelong connections and do it on someone else’s dime then when it comes time to pay up or take advantage of all the extra boost you got along the way it’s a big fat swear word zero.
Oh yeah yeah you did blah blah my cousin my nephew my shooting partner …
Since you FEEL your big hearted halo virtue signaling to the world, the USA has gotta cheat 300 million people.