Supreme Court Makes Anti-LGBTQ+ Ruling, Goes Against Student Loan Borrowers After Gutting Affirmative Action

In the second major conservative-leaning ruling Friday, the six conservative justices declared Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, held that the massive Biden forgiveness plan — which proposed forgiving amounts up to $10,000 or $20,000 for millions of qualified applicants — was beyond the scope of the president to implement. Biden had argued that the powers given to the president to pause student loans, which began during the Trump administration, also gave him the power to forgive these amounts; the court, however, ruled that such a multibillion-dollar plan needed congressional approval. Although Biden has objected to the court’s ruling and vowed to find other ways to aid student borrowers, millions of whom had already signed up for his now-banned forgiveness program, the court’s decision is a significant defeat for one of Biden’s major policy proposals.