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🐳 Good morning!

I'm going to try live-spouting the oral arguments at SCOTUS today on student loan forgiveness. Not sure if I can thread, but I will try!

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10:05 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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Still waiting for the Court to get through announcements. But, when they do, oral argument will start. You can follow at home here:

https://www.supremecourt.g...

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10:06 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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For a little background on the cases, Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog has a really nice write up. Here's that link

https://www.scotusblog.com...

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10:09 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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There are two cases on tap this morning related to the Biden Administration student debt relief program under which student borrowers (and parents like me) can get up to $20,000 in loans cancelled.

(1) Biden v. Nebraska: Six states including Nebraska sued to stop plan, arguing that the law the S
10:14 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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We have started. On behalf of the government, the solicitor general is arguing that this waiver and modification of the statute governing the student loan program is appropriate under the HEROES Act and the "major questions doctrine" should not apply.

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10:16 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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Justice Thomas is asking questions about how the Secretary of Education's actions functioned as waivers or modifications. And whether there was express language in the Act about cancellation of loans.

However, she replied that that law allowed for responding to the national emergency (Covid) inc
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10:18 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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Sorry. Not sure if I'm being cut off by typing too much.

Chief Justice seems to have asked whether the word "modify" any Title IV provisions as permitted in the HEROES Act could include cancel half a trillion in loans.

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10:19 AM - Feb 28, 2023
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Solicitor General points out that debt relief to deal with borrower hardship is one of the key thing that the HEROES Act is designed to deal with as it's focused on financial relief.

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