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A 2003 federal law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or #HEROES Act, allows student loan debt relief during wartime or national #emergencies.
Biden relied upon the HEROES Act when he unveiled plans to #cancel up to $10,000 in #federal #student #debt for Americans making under $125,000 and $20,000 for recipients of Pell grants awarded to students from lower-income families.
The program drew swift legal challenges. Two lawsuits - one by six conservative-leaning states and the other by two student loan borrowers who opposed the plan's eligibility requirements - prompted lower courts to block it.
In the case brought by individual borrowers, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, in November found the plan violated the #MajorQuestionsDoctrine - a ruling that the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold pending appeal.
The major questions doctrine gives judges broad discretion to invalidate executive agency actions unless Congress clearly authorized them in legislation.
The justices used the doctrine since Biden took office in 2021 to #block the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from extending eviction protections for cash-strapped residential renters, #stymie his COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses and #restrict the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. -
A 2003 federal law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or #HEROES Act, allows student loan debt relief during wartime or national #emergencies.
Biden relied upon the HEROES Act when he unveiled plans to #cancel up to $10,000 in #federal #student #debt for Americans making under $125,000 and $20,000 for recipients of Pell grants awarded to students from lower-income families.
The program drew swift legal challenges. Two lawsuits - one by six conservative-leaning states and the other by two student loan borrowers who opposed the plan's eligibility requirements - prompted lower courts to block it.
In the case brought by individual borrowers, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, in November found the plan violated the #MajorQuestionsDoctrine - a ruling that the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold pending appeal.
The major questions doctrine gives judges broad discretion to invalidate executive agency actions unless Congress clearly authorized them in legislation.
The justices used the doctrine since Biden took office in 2021 to #block the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from extending eviction protections for cash-strapped residential renters, #stymie his COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses and #restrict the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.
