Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is vowing to continue fighting for relief for borrowers even if the Supreme Court strikes it down.
around $1.8 trillion in student loans, according to data from the Federal Reserve.
Activists have said that judgements in favor of striking down the plan would essentially be judicial activism and that Biden has the authority to cancel student debt. In May, by the Debt Collective and Roosevelt Institute found that the standing — or the very basis for a court to hear a case to begin with — for Republican states’ case against the plan inThese legal problems could potentially go away if Congress were to authorize a student debt cancellation plan or legislation written explicitly to give the president permission to cancel student loans — a possibility that is exceedingly unlikely, but that lawmakers like Ocasio-Cortez have vowed to fight for anyway.
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