I’m sick of federal judges blocking everything. This was their deliberate decades long plan to control everything without voter consent. See Master Plan podcast. We’re fucked.
If Trump wins a second term, you’ll be saying the exact opposite.
How is it Legal for a Judge to Block an OFFICIAL ACT?
It’s not an official act because it came from a Democrat
Well now he can just do it and call it an official act.
I mean couldn’t the president just have the Supreme Court executed as an official act now and have immunity?
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Then Biden needs to do a illegal loan forgiveness and forgive federal and private loans without consent. Just declare student loans are illegal.
He doesn’t have to declare anything. It just has to be an official duty, have Seal Team 6 deliver the loan forgiveness letters in bulk. Since the Department of Education is under the executive branch, do it’s fine according to the morons on the Supreme Court.
Just. Zero. The. Interest.
Stop with all these convoluted piecemeal plans. Just get someone like Fannie Mae to buy up all the loans made before 2014, and then zero out the interest on remaining payments.
Unfortunately the interest rate is specifically set by law and tied to 10 year treasury bill rates. This cannot be altered with an executive action, would need congress to change the law.
https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-rates#who-sets
That’s why the executive orders are focused on things like minimum payments, how long it takes to get forgiveness, who qualifies, etc, because the laws give the department of education more latitude to adjust those things (or are supposed to at least, weird rulings from republican judges notwithstanding).
We have 0% interest in Canada, but the way people tell it our Liberals and Trudeau specifically has never done anything good for anyone.
Wish he would say “fuck it jack!” And just forgive all student debt. No means testing, just all gone.
He can legally do that. And if the judges say boo about it he can grow a pair and tell them to try and enforce it. He controls the DOJ.
Heave, ho
All together
Hoist the colors highSeriously, fuck these fucks.
We’re gonna have to band together just to get some fucken civil services around here.…never shall we die?
As it always has been
i don’t understand why they get to be in power. People could just vote ‘no’ if they won’t want it
This is like a sitcom husband calling a restaurant on Valentines afternoon for an appointment, obviously getting turned away, and then claiming to the sitcom wife it’s not his fault and she has to now pretend that he took her out to a fancy dinner after she cooks for him with zero notice.
Because he tried.
With a bare minimum of effort, knowing it wouldnt work.
If you know a woman in that situation in real life, you’d explain what gaslighting is.
But for some reason we still can’t criticize Biden, because he’s not trump, even tho he’s also not running.
Almost like neoliberals will always scream and moan that there’s some bullshit reason you can’t judge their strategies when they never work. They want us to just keep beating our head against a wall, because when Republicans win, so do the corporations that donate to them and neoliberals.
You’re misrepresenting the context.
Republicans are jurisdiction-shopping to find the most regressive and conservative judges they can find, and filing the cases there.
Republicans are jurisdiction-shopping to find the most regressive and conservative judges they can find, and filing the cases there.
They’ve been doing that for decades…
Why do you and Biden think they were just gonna not?
Like, you think Republicans will just voluntarily stop using a loophole so we don’t have to bother trying to close it?
The GOP will always find some new way to fuck up the system. That’s basically what they do now, sabotage the political system to maintain undue control. Not even pre-existing Supreme Court precedents are respected anymore, the right to vote is under attack from countless sides, wrenches get thrown in everywhere …
But you complain that the Democrats still try to get things done and at least expose the sad the state of our failing system rather than just waiting around for bulletproof golden opportunities that are somehow beyond the reach of all this fuckery.
But you complain that the Democrats still try to get things done
Nope, I’m saying they’ll throw out a half-assed attempt and say “we tried”
But they’re not trying.
Like at the complete inaction over decades with the SC since you brought them up.
So bi-partisan country-wide reform of how cases are assigned along with enforceable ethics codes banning partisanship that all states agree to so that federal appeals are not needed and a Supreme Court overhaul on top before we even attempt to do anything other than bend over for MAGA activists who are passing regressive shady bills at an alarming rate…
Good luck with that.
And your plan is…
Ignore the insane amount of partisian judges, both on the SC and junior courts?
When do things in your version get better?
40-50 years when they die off?
Wow fixing the Supreme Court and court system why didn’t anyone think of that…
Maybe Biden should have been appointing federal judges to balance out Trump’s appointments?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/can-biden-top-trumps-number-of-judicial-appointments/
Maybe Democrats should propose ethics reform for Supreme Court? Maybe a change to term limits?
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-reform-biden-harris-trump-ffd48f3a2023aeca841bb53c2147ef03
Unfortunately changes like this don’t happen with a magic wand and require pesky things like working around the inevitable House obstruction by winning the election and getting more House seats (otherwise you’d no doubt decry a Republican House blocking it as yet another doomed attempt by Democrats to change things).
What would you sayd they should do?
What a load of horseshit.
There was nothing unconstitutional about the first executive action to cancel student debt. Such action was explicitly permitted by the HEROES Act, and only a bad-faith interpretation by an illegitimate court consisting of corrupt justices was able to find otherwise.
And there’s nothing wrong with this attempt, either. It’s just that Conservatives don’t want the government helping people in an election year. Debt cancellation is universally popular and only negatively impacts the politicians who aren’t in favor.
Congress (i.e. the GOP) won’t budge on this issue and this is at least the 3rd attempt he’s made to forgive loans. Only thing left to do is invoke his “King powers” to do it anyway.
Wish he would. He’s a lame duck. He’s got nothing to lose and forgiving all student debt would likely get more people to vote for democrats.
“By the powers invested in me by the Supreme Court, as an official act President of the United States, I hereby forgive all student loans as delineated in this executive order. It is done. Finito. Come at me scrotus!”
- I wish
“No you don’t.” -SCOTUS
Being immune to prosecution doesn’t mean that any executive order can’t be overturned. He just can’t be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of an official act. He could execute the conservative justices that are blocking the plan, but he can’t just make any proclamation he wants and expect it to carry the force of law.
Except SCOTUS has no enforcement mechanism. They make decisions and the presumption is that everyone else just goes along with it.
Not saying that’s the legal or moral thing to do but if a former President is being given preferential treatment for behavior which is essentially treasonous the new standard is if you’re not punished for it then it’s “legal”.
Well how is Biden going to enforce it? He can day whatever he wants, but financial organizations will just turn to the courts.
Unless you’re saying he should send men with guns to wipe out debt somehow?
The Court granted immunity to prosecution (which is fucking insane) but that doesn’t actually give him the ability to forgive all debts. If a court says “no, the debt isn’t canceled” and the debt is still on the books somewhere, the problem remains unsolved. About the only way he can use presidential immunity to fix the problem would be to take out the judges that are blocking it.
The courts don’t control the ledger, the executive does. Biden would likely have to apply downward pressure to get some random employee with access to delete the debt records. At worst they’d get prosecuted federally and Biden would pardon them.
Why would some random employee take that risk though?
Well since you’re yet again blaming the Democrats for problems created by Republicans, how would you solve the problem of student loans in a way that would help Americans and would also get past the GOP?
Complaining about neoliberals and not voting will surely convince Democrats to court him.
