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nyknick

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“In every respect, the Court today exceeds its proper, limited role in our Nation’s governance.”

Thus begins justice Elena Kagan’s dissent against the conservative majority’s decision stopping Joe Biden from relieving some federal student loan debt. She was joined by her two fellow liberals on the court.

It’s a long read with lots in it, but here’s a good encapsulation of Kagan’s counterargument:

The Court reads statutes unnaturally, seeking to cabin their evident scope. And the Court applies heightened-specificity requirements, thwarting Congress’s efforts to ensure adequate responses to unforeseen events. The result here is that the Court substitutes itself for Congress and the Executive Branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness. Congress authorized the forgiveness plan (among many other actions); the Secretary put it in place; and the President would have been accountable for its success or failure. But this Court today decides that some 40 million Americans will not receive the benefits the plan provides, because (so says the Court) that assistance is too “significan[t].”
 

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No one could have predicted these outcomes with a court that has several trump appointees as well as Thomas and alito. :unimpressed:

Just cause you fought Tyson and were supposed to be KO'd and still got KO'd doesn't mean you didn't get stretched out for the world to see :unimpressed:
 

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“In every respect, the Court today exceeds its proper, limited role in our Nation’s governance.”

Thus begins justice Elena Kagan’s dissent against the conservative majority’s decision stopping Joe Biden from relieving some federal student loan debt. She was joined by her two fellow liberals on the court.

It’s a long read with lots in it, but here’s a good encapsulation of Kagan’s counterargument:
They spent 70 years calling the Court an "activist court" after Brown v. Board, and now are being activists themselves. Its all a projection.

The Court is illegitimate.
 

Bleed The Freak

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Biden didn't lose, 43 million people lost.

This is going to do wonders for Biden's fundraising and campaign, he can just 'vote harder' his way to re-election.

I'm not saying you can't turn an 'L' into a fundraising haul. But this was an ass kicking and no amount of MSNBC will cover it up.

Republicans had to hold the L on Obamacare. This is the Liberals.
 
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