Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the HEROES Act of 2003 gives clear authority for debt cancellation by authorizing the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify” provisions relating to Title IV of the Higher Education Act, which authorizes student loans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

Caving to craven and naked political interests, this court relied on convoluted reasoning and distorted facts to allow these two politically contrived cases to deny desperately needed relief to tens of millions of low-income and working-class student loan borrowers.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

As expected, the hearing focused on whether federal statute allows the Biden administration to forgive student loans, whether the plaintiffs have standing to challenge the plan and whether the justices should apply a stricter standard in their review of the two lawsuits before the court.

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