When the Biden administration heads to the U.S. Supreme Court in February to defend its student loan forgiveness plan, arguments will likely focus on whether a nearly 20-year-old law passed in the aftermath of the Sept.11 attacks allows Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to forgive some student loans.
The legality of using the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 to forgive up to $20,000 of federal student loans for eligible Americans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has already been the subject of numerous court filings and amicus briefs. Critics of the administration argue the debt-relief plan is executive overreach, while supporters say a plain-text reading of the statute provides all the authorization n…
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