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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court. In Biden v.

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The Appeal of Chaos: How Politicians and Pundits are Misconstruing The Supreme Court’s Order on the Texas Abortion Law

JonathanTurley

Both were legally and factually wrong. The Texas law was enacted in May — but challengers waited until shortly before it was to take effect on Sept. It is not just citizens but jurists and legal experts too who remain divided. In 1989, a fractured court upheld a restrictive Missouri abortion law in Webster v.

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