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By a 6-3 majority, Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student loan debt relief plan (www.supremecourt.gov)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/politics@beehaw.org
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(link is to the Supreme Court's opinion document)

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[–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

We can’t even get a small amount of our student loans discharged when prior generations paid basically nothing for them. What a joke

the fact that it's a 6-3 decision is the real meme here. clearly signals that literally no argument would have convinced the conservative majority here--they will always strike this down. real change on this front necessitates making the court irrelevant or just ignoring it at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Right across ideological lines. It seems unlikely to get politics and ideological beliefs out of the Supreme Court any time soon. The states had no standing in the first place, I'm surprised it didn't get thrown out just due to that.

    The overreach by this court has been disasterous, especially in light of the unethical behavior by justices to accept gifts from would-be plantiffs without recusing themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Yep. Unless we pack the court or do something drastic, the US is screwed for decades.

    Something has to change. Between the way our legislators are apportioned, to the way the EC works for the presidency, to the SC lifetime appointments, it just feels like theres no fucking hope

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Either the Democrats need to make some big changes internally, or a third party is going to have to break up the current duopoly. The current Democratic party sucks, as an effective opposition to the Republicans. The GOP just keeps drifting further to the far-right, and the Democrats continue to compromise even though the demands are becoming more extreme. This drags the whole government toward more conservative policies, regardless of which party is winning the elections.

    Change isn't going to happen when you have an aging centrist like Biden in the Oval Office. Governing by compromise is all he knows how to do. And yet, the Democrats still think they're "winning" even though the GOP is actively twisting their arm with every policy they try to pass. We need more people in Congress who are actually liberals, not centrists, and recognize that the current system isn't working for anyone outside outside of the 1%. Until that happens, the far-right is just going to keep turning up the heat, and the rest of the country is going to be stuck sitting there like a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being brought to a boil.

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