2023-03-01 13:51:22

Student Debt Relief in Jeopardy as Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden's Plan

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, which could give tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, while liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who brought one of the lawsuits. We're joined by Eleni Schirmer, who organizes with the Debt Collective and is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University's Social Justice Centre in Montreal. Her new piece in The New Yorker is headlined "How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann's Debts."

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