Liberal Activists Are Already Brainstorming Ways Biden Can Skirt SCOTUS’ Student Loan Ruling

Liberal activist groups are already discussing ways President Joe Biden can get around the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that blocked the administration’s plan to grant student loan forgiveness to nearly 40 million Americans.

In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration cannot use executive power to cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt for non-Pell Grant recipients and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. More Perfect Union, a social welfare organization, is assuring those who applied for forgiveness that there is another law Biden can use to cancel student loan debt in order to curb the Supreme Court’s decision.

“So the administration’s hands are absolutely not tied in this circumstance,” Persis Yu, a lawyer at the Student Borrower Protection Center, told More Perfect Union. “There are many tools that the [Education] Secretary can use. In particular, the Secretary already has the authority and the President can direct the Secretary to use that authority to cancel student loans under the Higher Education Act, under the provisions which allow them to settle, compromise, modify and waiver any of the debts in their portfolio.”