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‘They got nothin’: Elizabeth Warren torches Republicans for fighting against student debt relief
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‘They got nothin’: Elizabeth Warren torches Republicans for fighting against student debt relief
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United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) defended President Joe Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press just days after a conservative federal judge declared that Biden’s executive action was illegal.
Judge Mark Pittman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled on Thursday that Biden’s “program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated.” CNN noted on Friday that “the Texas lawsuit was filed by a conservative group, the Job Creators Network Foundation, in October on behalf of two borrowers who did not qualify for debt relief.” Pittman’s order forced the government to shutter its application portal.
The Justice Department immediately appealed the decision to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and there is a decent chance that the case could end up before the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 right-wing supermajority. In the meantime, millions of financially-burdened debtors will have to wait for the legal process to play out.
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Warren, however, is optimistic that Biden’s decree will ultimately prevail.
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