Lawsuit Seeks to Block Biden Loan Forgiveness Plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe tells the Post that the case appears weak because the policy has a "pretty solid" legal foundation -- a 2003 law that gives the president the right to cancel student debt in connection with a national emergency, which in this case is the COVID pandemic.
35% : Caleb Kruckenberg, another attorney at the foundation, says "Congress did not authorize the executive branch to unilaterally cancel student debt" and it was illegal to bring in the policy "by press release, and without statutory authority."

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