President Joe Biden held a press event to brag about a major accomplishment this week. That itself is hardly surprising in an election year, but the boast itself was rather curious. In announcing the writing off of another $1.2 billion owed to the government in student loans, Biden gloated that the Supreme Court could not stop him from acting unilaterally to cancel the debt. For an Administration running on saving democracy from his political opponent, the chest-thumping brag that no one can stop him was a moment of impressive political dissonance.
Biden spoke at the Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, California and noted that his effort to cancel billions in debt was initially halted by the Supreme Court. It has also been opposed by many in Congress and polls show that the public is split on the idea with 47 percent in favor and 41 percent opposed. It is doubtful that the plan could ever make it through Congress.
So Biden, again, acted alone to write off a massive amount of debt owed to the public.
“Early in my term, I announced a major plan to provide millions of working families with debt relief for their college student debt. Tens of millions of people in debt were literally about to be canceled in debts. But my MAGA Republican friends in the Congress, elected officials and special interests stepped in and sued us. And the Supreme Court blocked it. But that didn’t stop me.”
Bragging that the courts cannot stop you is hardly a testament to the democratic process.
Biden has been found to have violated the Constitution with impunity in the past. This includes rulings that his administration has exceeded his authority and engaged in racial discrimination in federal programs. Indeed, Biden has often displayed a cavalier attitude toward such violations.
For example, the Biden administration was found to have violated the Constitution in its imposition of a nationwide eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Biden admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him the move was unconstitutional. But he ignored their advice and went with that of Harvard University Professor Laurence Tribe, the one person who would tell him what he wanted to hear. It was, of course, then quickly found to be unconstitutional.
Biden showed the same disregard over the unconstitutionality of his effort to unilaterally forgive roughly half a trillion dollars in student debt.
Recently, Biden blasted Trump for saying that he would be a dictator on the first day in taking unilateral action to close the border. (Trump later said it was a joke, but that he was promising immediate and decisive action on the border on his first day back in office).
Biden warned donors “he’s saying it out loud.” The irony is crushing since Biden has been repeatedly found to have violated the Constitution through similar unilateral actions using executive action. He is now bragging that not even the Supreme Court can prevent him from doing so on student debt.
The President is running on his claim that “democracy is on the ballot.” Yet, the no-one-can-stop-me boast makes him seem like the source and not the solution of the problem.
the number one reason why do few people engage this website is because of the comment screed and manure that is piled up.
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2. It’s the same jackwagons holding court and reinventing the same arguments an pet peeves toward each other in some crazy town game of “gotcha”. where are the moderators and why aren’t these people suspended for consuming all the oxygen in the comment thread and continuing to wage personal attacks to each other.
3. coherence…again, it’s the same bunch of commenters, about 20 who dominate the thread with incoherent nonsense…absent any serious level of effort.
4. commenters want to learn other opinions and views …whether you are a turley fan boy or not, this is the purpose of the comment section….well, it should be. But obviously, the moderators here have decided to just let junk yard dogs bark loudly and run amok. Nothing is learned in the comment section.
the comment section in it’s current form, unmoderated, should be shut down. Just run the turley article and no one comments. That would be a positive reform.
OR…(sighs with cynicism), CERTAIN COMMENTERS could possible restrain themselves and stop the endless personal one up man ship and actual produce valid, fact based, ideas and opinions that are compelling AND THAT ARE EFFING RELEVANT TO THE TOPIC !
Well, they can’t stop the kargroo courts Trump is facing, either.
Feckless comes to mind.
Arrest him…
So Prezzident Biden violates his oath of office to protect the constitution – to wit:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Sounds impeachable to me!
nathan waded into willis’ fani
daddy says, “you fool, hide the cash”
hillary smirked, “rank ameteurs”
give me the dough
I’ll buy cake bright and yellow
give it to putin
double our money
Tis a vast right wing conspiracy
How can he constitutionally forgive that debt?
By using the authority that Congress gave him in various statutes. He was originally using one statute that seemed like it gave him almost carte blanche; the Supreme Court said he was misreading it, and it didn’t give him unlimited authority. So he ordered his lawyers to search the statute books for other programs he can use to forgive a little debt here and a little debt there, and they’ve found some. Each of those could be challenged in court, and maybe the courts will find that he’s misreading those too, and maybe they won’t. But unless and until they do he is entitled to follow his interpretation of each of them.
That’s how it works. That’s how it’s always worked, and there’s no other way it can work. It’s not as if he can ask a court for an advisory opinion in advance, to make sure he’s reading the statute correctly. The only way is for him to act, and then if anyone thinks he’s wrong, and has standing, they have to challenge him. Only then can the courts consider it.
Folks….it is simple….just another way of buying votes using taxpayers money.
Also remember the Federal Government is running almost Two Trillion Dollars PER YEAR in the red….and borrowing to finance that debt.
This year that cost alone, the finance charges, shall match or exceed the entire Defense budget.
Yet Republicans in Congress play the Go Along and Get Along game when it comes to spending.
Yes, two trillion a year over spend is totally out of control and I haven’t seen a single analysis on what has changed. They can’t make the covid excuse anymore.
They probably just redirected and looted up for whatever the covid spending numbers – so they took emergency money and made it permanent on other things.
Obama, with the help of useful idiots like Harry Reid, made the bloated budget of 2009 (to save the economy after the collapse of the real estate market) permanent. It’s no surprise that Washington, DC (both Republians and Democrats) are addicted to spending with no forethought of the problems that come with it for future generatons of Americans who will be asked to pay back what they borrowed. This country needs fiscal controls NOW.
what a presidential scum
How is this not an impeachable offense?
How can Republicans not JUMP on this?
There’s no offense. Boasting is not an offense. Showing literal contempt for the supreme court can’t be an offense, because it’s at the core of the freedom of speech. Every person is entitled to express contempt for the judicial branch just as he is for the other branches. “Contempt of Court” is a term of art, meaning disobeying a court order, and he hasn’t done that. When the court told him the statute he was planning to use wouldn’t work, he didn’t use it. No court has told him the statutes he is now using don’t work, and in all likelihood they do. So where’s the offense?
We should all admire Joe Biden for being so generous – with other peoples money.
This debt forgiveness fails on at least three criteria: 1) It fails to impose a national service condition on the students such as with the GI bill and Americore, 2) It fails to address the unchecked and bloated administration cost of academia, and 3) it fails to get explicit agreement from Congress – the people’s representatives. Supposedly, Congress holds the purse strings but the Biden administration is running roughshod over democratic and constitutional principles.
All this crazy spending is bringing BRICS closer to success and the US closer to D$. I for one sure hope Americans wake up, get out of their comfort zone and look into the abyss because it’s getting pretty late.
Brics was developed by the US and is what the US government wants. You can read about how it was founded and by whom. in the end it will allows US government to control the dollar.
Biden will go down in history as a case study in lawless, corrupt, entitled politicians who cared nothing for this nation, nor its people. Everything he did was for personal enrichment at the expense of the nation and constituents.
Not if progressives are writing the history. They play for keeps, election fraud has always been treated as an entitlement.
Let’s take a look at why tuition costs are so high shall we? Maybe it’s the $M dollar paychecks for University Presidents and $200K/yr paychecks for tenured professors. They’re all on the State retirement plan so 80% of their best 5 years in perpetuity and for their spouses when they croak. When 55% of Americans work for some form of government that means the other 45% in the private sector are taxed to pay for it. That’s where the difference of a taxed tax dollar and a taxed commerce dollar comes into question.
There’s administrative bloat. We don’t need 50 deans and 100 associate deans, including 25 DIE deans (we’d do better with exactly 0 DIE deans). There’s also athletic bloat. Being in good shape and playing sports is fine, but it shouldn’t have such a prominent role in what is at its core an academic institution – or supposed to be anyway. Six and seven figure salaries for coaches and assistant coaches is beyond the pale, IMO.
Then on top of all that is federal government interference, which is perhaps the biggest driver of tuition rates. By making loans so easy to get, they drive the price of attendance way up, and saddle the next generation with heavy debt.
are you saying that people who work for the government don’t pay taxes? because that seems hard to believe
The governmental student loan program must be struck down by the Supreme Court in its entirety; its proponents jailed for flagrant crimes of high office.
President Biden has no power to provide for or cancel student debt.
Congress has no power to tax for or fund “student debt” or “student loans.”
Student loans are readily available to viable borrowers in the free markets of the private sector.
The student debt scam is fraudulent and designed to enrich teachers and professor unions and vacuous and fraudulent institutions of “higher learning.”
The student debt debacle is overlain with convoluted complexity for the purpose of impenetrable obfuscation.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor, or charity.
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Article 1, Section 8
“The Congress shall have Power To…pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
Professor Turley, you need a better commenting application like Discus. One in which it is easier to login, comment, edit and delete.
The GOP House Caucus should immediately file a “contempt of court” petition with SCOTUS, requesting that ALL of Biden’s orders “forgiving” student debt are ruled unconstitutional and therefore invalid, and reinstating the student debt.
He is NOT in contempt of court. He is in full compliance with the only court ruling on the topic. SCOTUS told him he couldn’t use the HEROES Act to forgive debt, so he isn’t. No court has ever told him that the statutes he’s relying on now don’t work; nobody has even asked a court to do so, and the courts can’t tell him that without someone with standing suing him. So he’s not in contempt of court.
In any case, what standing would the GOP House caucus have to file such a petition?
What does CBS have to say about this?
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt”
– Professor Turley
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And the Supreme Court of 1973 did not stop Roe v. Wade from fraudulently and obscenely simulating and posing as a national constitutional right to abortion.
Remind me again how Trump is a dictator.
Remind me again how Lincoln was a republican.
Remind me again how Lincoln was actually a democrat before the political “pole shift.”
Remind me again how Lincoln was an anti-Constitution, anti-capitalist fellow traveler and student of Karl Marx.
Remind me again how Lincoln ripped the Constitution out of America and put America on a course to the current communism America is subjugated by, understanding that reprehensible slavery must and should have been extirpated through the legislative process.
He wants to get rid of government censorship, and reduce the regulatory burden on businesses. He opposes the deep state and its many ways of eroding civil liberties. He also enacted criminal justice reform so as to eliminate draconian sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.
So . . . since he’s all about to reducing government’s size and reach, and giving people more freedom, he must be a dictator, right?
OldManFromKS,
Oh, my god!
He is a mad man!
He must be stop- oh, wait I agree with most of that.
No new wars. I mean if he can bring about peace between the Ukraine and Russia, I bet there would be a lot of Ukrainians who would vote for Trump. More so than Biden the butcher. Let us not forget, Putin has endorsed Biden. Why? It benefits him for another 4 years of bumbling Biden, the gift that keeps on giving!
A secure Southern border that would put an near end to all the drugs flowing into America? Put a near stop to the human trafficking that is providing millions of dollars to the drug cartels?
How terrible that would be! /sarc off
So biden got away with the nearly half a trillion in student loan debt cancellation ?
How does that work, exactly, with separation of powers and oversight by the courts ?
Was that the old scam “no standing” again, or did the naked rerobed declare absolute fealty openly ?
Since it was hundreds of billions for the elite’s in DC’s childen, ol buddy boy biden got a big fat pass, because
there are no morals when it comes to cold hard cash for the rich, right ?
Did all of you sen biden a xmas card, err, I meant a happy kwanzaa card or a hannuka candle ?
Half a trillion? Turley said it was $1.2 billion. What kind of grades did you get in math class, Shakdi?
“That Didn’t Stop Me”: President Biden Brags that the Supreme Court Cannot Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt”
– Professor Turley
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“[THE POWER OF THE SUPREME COURT HAS BEEN] RESISTED BY A FORCE TOO STRONG FOR ME TO OVERCOME”
And the Supreme Court couldn’t stop “Crazy Abe” Lincoln from unconstitutionally suspending habeas corpus. The Supreme Court didn’t stop “Crazy Abe” from denying not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession, or freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, the right to private property, etc.
The Supreme Court didn’t stop “Crazy Abe” from “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” from a course perpetuating constitutional freedom to one of the incremental implementations of the principles of communism created by his fellow traveler, Karl Marx, which Americans struggle against today.
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To wit,
“The clause in the Constitution which authorizes the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is in the ninth section of the first article. This article is devoted to the Legislative Department of the United States, and has not the slightest reference to the Executive Department.”
“I can see no ground whatever for supposing that the President in any emergency or in any state of things can authorize the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, or arrest a citizen except in aid of the judicial power.”
“I have exercised all the power which the Constitution and laws confer on me, but that power has been resisted by a force too strong for me to overcome.”
– Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, May 28, 1861
There you have the weakness of the Supreme Court. Unless the party in power has the will to impeach the President, he can tell the Supreme Court to go to Hell and he gets away with every despotic declaration he may care to make. Lincoln suspended habeas to try to save the Union, Biden ignores the Supreme Court to buy votes. Lincoln would not have been a fan of Karl Marx, but Biden and Obama would have exchanged friendship bracelets with him like they do with each other! Lincoln did not believe in confiscating what belongs to someone else to give to those more likely to vote for you. Oaths mean nothing to Biden. Probably doesn’t even remember what an oath is!