Student Loan Forgiveness Is Headed to the Supreme Court. Here's What To Expect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Originally passed by Congress in 2003 to benefit military servicemembers with student loans, it was made permanent in 2007 and gives the Secretary of Education broad powers in the event of a national emergency.
51% : That is, under Biden's program, millions of loans would be forgiven before 2025, during a window when borrowers receiving student loan discharges would be exempt from paying income taxes on the amount forgiven, thanks to a provision of the American Rescue Plan pandemic relief bill.
47% : "Once you open that door, you're going to have everybody go into court and say, 'I'm entitled to this, and I'm entitled to that.'"The White House says the HEROES Act of 2003 gives the administration the power to cancel student loan debt.
46% : They also argue that the forgiveness program will deprive the states of income tax revenue they would otherwise collect on student loan balances being discharged.
46% :The opponents of student loan cancellation say the HEROES Act was never intended to empower such a sweeping program.
39% : In June 2022, the court's six-justice conservative majority signed an opinion in the case of West Virginia vs. EPA articulating the controversial "major questions doctrine," which legal experts say could be a key issue in the student loan case.
35% : In the second case, two college graduates with student loans, Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor, backed by a conservative activist group, sued the Department of Education arguing that the process for determining who got debt forgiveness and who didn't was unfair and broke the law.
27% : Lawyers will debate whether a 2003 law gives the Biden administration the power to cancel student loans en masseStudent loan forgiveness is about to have its day in court.

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