Conservative Supreme Court justices target the fairness of Biden's student-loan forgiveness and executive overreach in their first round of questioning
Several of the Supreme Court's conservative justices dug into whether President Biden's student-loan forgiveness was an overreach of his executive power in a fiery and lengthy debate over the relief on Tuesday.
The chief justice referenced that the court has previously defined"modify" as"moderate change," and speculated whether the law's language can also be applied to broad student-loan forgiveness. The questioning came as the Supreme Court reviewed one of two high-profile cases that center on whether Biden exceeded his legal authority with the debt relief and whether the parties have standing — the right to challenge the relief by showing they suffered an injury from it.
"We take very seriously the idea of separation of powers and that power should be divided to prevent its abuse," Roberts told Prelogar.
Unlike her fellow conservatives, however, Justice Amy Coney Barrett centered most of her questioning on the issue of standing, and wondered how the states have shown they have suffered an injury to legally challenge Biden's plan.
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