A Constitutional Republic Demands a Constrained Judiciary: Judicial Overreach in "Vacating" Biden's Loan Forgiveness Program

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : A federal district judge -- Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee to the Northern District of Texas -- has dashed the hopes and upended the plans of tens of millions of student loan borrowers nationwide who have either been approved, or were about to be approved, for debt relief under the Biden administration's loan forgiveness program.
52% : by the President as 'over'" in remarks during a television interview aired "weeks before the [DOE] program" was officially launched; and the observation that the Education Department's reliance on a "rarely invoked statutory provision" warranted enough "skepticism" to justify finding it beyond the agency's delegated power in light of this past June's Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Authority, requiring that some delegations -- those raising "major questions" -- must be not only clear but clairvoyant, specific enough to spell out in advance the precise program an agency has put in place pursuant to the law Congress enacted.
48% : All that remained was a possible claim that, although the plaintiffs had been denied nothing by way of process to which they could claim any entitlement, and although the law that made that fact crystal clear was perfectly constitutional, perhaps neither that law nor any other gave the Department of Education the statutory authority to forgive student debt at all?
33% : The sole complaint of these plaintiffs -- one of whom, Myra Brown, was ineligible for $20,000 in loan forgiveness under the debt relief program she challenged because her student loans are all commercially held and the other of whom, Alexander Taylor, was ineligible for $10,000 of such loan forgiveness because he hadn't received a Pell grant -- was that they'd been unable, because of the procedure by which DOE promulgated the program, to argue for more generous eligibility criteria, criteria that might have forgiven $20,000 of student debt owed by each.

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