The quote was: “The HEROES Act of 2003 was adopted in response to the national emergency declaration by President George W. Bush in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the intent to ensure military members fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan would not be penalized in repaying their federal student aid loans.
Turley calls the use of the HEROES Act for Biden’s student loan handout "transparently opportunistic" and "unlikely to pass muster with the Supreme Court."
So my smooth brain doesn’t quite understand the intricacies of this, but does that mean debt relief could be struck down in the Supreme Court? And to that end could this whole thing have been a ploy to make SCOTUS look evil and either attempt to pack it or change it somehow?
I with ya, been trying to make sense of all of this too.
I believe any court can block it. Like they kept doing with anything trump signed
https://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/heroes-act-of-2003
So I'll admit I wasn't familiar with this but having now read it and this:
https://www.biahelp.com/use-of-the-heroes-act-of-2003-to-cancel-the-principal-amounts-of-student-loans/
I wonder if this was simply just a tactic to repay financial institutions because they're in control and allowing people to forgo paying their debts during the pandemic caused a strain on their relationship with the current "regime"
Full article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-300b-student-loan-handouts-expose-chilling-disregard-law-constitutional-experts-say
Stretching for mental gymnastics
As I understand it, the Heroes Act of 2003 applied only to veterans. The current administration has expanded that same law to include anybody who owes on a federal student loan.
The Supreme Court deals with the constitutionality of our laws and how the laws are applied under the Constitution. If they took on the case, it would not be about denying debt relief. It would be about the legality of whether a law specifically enacted for veterans can be applied to all students in the United States who have federal student loans—regardless of their military standing.
There are probably dozens of ways to argue the case (including the government’s defense of “national emergency,” which we’ve been continuously in non-stop thanks to them for decades). The bottom line for the Court is how the content of law—any law—is interpreted and applied, and to whom.
The current administration is not offering student debt relief to be kind or nice. They are doing it to cause trouble. Read some of the other posts and comments to learn about that!
Thanks for your question. I can see that you’re a good person trying to apply reason and logic to an evil situation.