The Supreme Court Strikes Down the Biden Student Loan Bailout

U.S. Department of Education v. Brown, et al.

SCOTUS Strikes Down the Student Loan Bailout

 
Elaine Parker, president of Job Creators Network Foundation, released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling today striking down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program:

“This is a great victory for Job Creators Network Foundation, the Constitution, and the American people. We brought this case on behalf of two plaintiffs, and we’re pleased the ruling stops one of the most egregious examples of executive overreach in modern American history. It sets the stage for long overdue bipartisan action to address the underlying reason for the student debt crisis: unaccountable colleges that have raised tuition by more than double the inflation rate over the last generation. Recent legislation introduced by Senate Republicans helps get to the root of the problem by imposing student loan transparency and eliminating inflationary Graduate PLUS loans, but more needs to be done.

“JCNF’s lawsuit played an integral role in today’s victory. Our case, brought in Texas, blocked the entire program at the district level and stopped the application process, allowing the legal challenge to go to the Supreme Court. We are all winners today now that this illegal program has been struck down. JCNF looks forward to driving the conversation around meaningful higher education reform to address the root cause of this crisis and make college affordable.”

History of the Case:

On August 24, the Biden Administration announced plans to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower earning less than $125,000 per year ($250,000 per household). The action is expected to forgive loans for over 40 million borrowers, with as many as 20 million getting the remainder of their student loan balance forgiven. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bailout will cost taxpayers around $400 billion. Biden’s bailout would also accelerate inflation at the worst possible time – something that even Democrat economists have acknowledged.

Worse yet, the directive does nothing to hold colleges accountable for their outrageous tuition prices that fund high executive pay, an army of administrators who provide little to no value, and the construction of resort style amenities. Why don’t we see Biden calling out the heads of these universities that are sitting on $700 billion in endowments while these students drown in debt?

But beyond the high cost and unfairness of the debt cancellation lies a larger problem: it is completely illegal and constitutes an unprecedented power grab from the executive branch.

In particular, the student loan bailout violates the Administrative Procedure Act’s basic notice-and-comment procedures for regulations. Federal courts in the past have affirmed that the notice-and-comment phase is conducive to good government: “to ensure that unelected administrators, who are not directly accountable to the populace, are forced to justify their quasi-legislative rulemaking before an informed and skeptical public.”

In response to this executive overreach, the JCNF Legal Action Fund filed a lawsuit to block this arbitrary fiat on October 10, retaining the services of the law firm Consovoy McCarthy. In our complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, we argue that two of our plaintiffs–Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor–were denied the ability to comment on the proposed regulation by the U.S. Department of Education.

 

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