Update: After U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s decision yesterday to rule against President Biden’s proposed plan for student loan bailouts, the DOJ has filed an appeal against the ruling. The media has criticized the plaintiff who brought the case for their affiliation with Job Creators Network Foundation for being right-wing in their eyes, as well as being billionaire funded. The media has also criticized the judge, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, for being a Trump-appointed judge. The grounds for President Biden’s student debt bailout have always been viewed as shaky, as the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country over 2 years ago. Many who took out student loans did not make the decision based whatsoever on the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s unclear whether the allegations against the judge for conspiring with right-wing groups will materialize into President Biden’s proposed plan moving forward.
Nonetheless, the DOJ intends to appeal the judge’s decision. After the U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s decision to strike down the proposed student bailout plan, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement, “we strongly disagree with the District Court’s ruling on our student debt relief program and the Department of Justice has filed an appeal.” Jean-Pierre added, “The president and this administration are determined to help to work and middle-class Americans get back on their feet, while our opponents—backed by extreme Republican special interests—sued to block millions of Americans from getting much-needed relief.”
While many are attempting to claim that U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s decision to strike down the Biden administration’s proposed plan to forgive student loans was a political move – which is a conspiracy that the left would typically not tolerate – many have also claimed that the Biden Administrations plan was nothing more than an attempt to bribe young voters before the Midterm elections and put off the “red wave.” The Guardian on Friday, Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor noted her views on the student bail-out plan, claiming that the Biden Administration’s plan may have been an effort to motivate young voters to turn out in large numbers for the Midterm elections. The writing was on the wall that the Democratic party was in a tight spot politically due to President Biden’s low approval rating just two years into taking office, and Democrats were attempting to put off the “red wave” that Republicans had predicted.
Simply, if the Biden Administration’s move was both unconstitutional and politically motivated to bail out large sums of student loan debt in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, then it’s not a political move by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman to rule against the case. Without sufficient evidence that U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman conspired in a political way to strike down a perfectly legal ruling, then it’s unlikely the Biden Administration will be granted an appeal.
Federal judge, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, ruled that President Biden’s student loan bailout violated federal procedures and defied the government’s inherent separation of powers doctrine. In his ruling, Pittman said “In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” adding, “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government.” The lawsuit from last month comes from The Job Creators Network on behalf of two of their borrowers, both of which were denied the benefits of President Biden’s program.
The proposed Biden plan was heavily criticized as a “bribe” for young voters who avoid paying for overpriced education if they support a President with a dwindling approval rating. Criticisms have also been raised surrounding Biden’s choice to alligate funds towards student loan bailouts at a time when the country is well over an 8% inflation rate and the U.S. economy is doing poor on nearly every front.
Conveniently, this ruling was not released prior to the Midterm elections, where Generation Z showed out for the Democratic party. If this ruling was released prior to November 8th, Generation Z would have likely stayed home due to President Biden and the Democratic party’s empty promises.
President Biden has recently stated that the United States is no longer in a COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency, and the student debt bailout program was made with the intention of relieving people of their loans due to COVID-19, however, the reasoning behind the student debt bailout is widely considered to be a stretch now 2 years removed from the COVID-19 pandemic, along with that, it’s seen as an abuse of power from President Biden for evading approval from congress and the senate.
If approved, Biden’s proposed bailout would have canceled up to $10,000 of student loan debt for individuals who earn less than $125,000 per year, and for married couples up to $250,000 per year.
A loan is a loan. If you signed, you pay just like others have to pay their loans. Maybe get the schools who get millions and charge too much should be responsible. Maybe students need to me more thoughtful. I didn’t go to college because i couldn’t Afford it. Later i went to jr. College, saw young men and women with children going to night classes to get a degree
Un friking believable. Thats got to be one of the most pathetic arguments to dismiss a case or lift an injection I have ever heard.
Hey Biden it is unconstitutional, YOU DON’T HAVE THAT POWER.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constitutionally, the majority of the actions of this president, are contrary to.
This is NOT a monarchy, yet he behaves as if it is.
Jan 3, the new Congress is seated. We are well poised to take the house, and quite possibly the Senate. Not by the numbers we wanted, but a majority is a majority.
The promise of a student loan bailout, coupled with the indoctrinated Gen Z voters, and a number of lesser factors are to blame.
No matter the outcome of the midterms (don’t forget GA!), we need to make moves to eliminate the issues that may or may not have had an appreciable effect. Printer issues, ballots evaporating, and the inexcusable delay in counting ballots.
Those people that are pulling the strings for Biden are going to keep up their unconstitutional ways until they get shut down by the courts. The senile Biden has no clue as to what he’s doing except he reads what he is told to read then get out of the way so he doesn’t have to answer any questions. The GOP made two big mistakes this election, they didn’t tear into Biden highlighting his low poll numbers, and the many mistakes he constantly makes, and the other big mistake was not telling Trump to shut his big mouth. The hate Trump is very deep and spreads across the whole country. They need to distance themselves from him before the 2024 election and they catch the wrath of the voters.
Biden refuses to comply with his obligation to adhere to and enforce the Constitution, a common problem with Democrats. Instead of accepting this responsibility, they get away with every violation of the law and Constitution that they can.
Judge got it right !!!!!
No one should get a free ride on paying their student loans. Many paid for theirs without any help. You agreed to pay your loan upon agreement. Pay it ,it’s that simple. It’s not the taxpayer problem!
So sick and tired of this mouth piece freak at the white house, double sick of the lying UNAMERICAN MAGGOT POS BIDEN. Get off the judges balls,BIDEN, you can’t use DOJ to appeal anything. This is a Congressional matter,BIDEN needs to f off
Now you know why Biden scraped bottom of his class at Law School. His oath of office for the Presidency also included protecting our Sovreign Borders. I just do not understand why the Senate and Congress do not come after him before he gets us into another war or breaks the Federal Reserve Bank and causes another GREAT DEPRESSION. He should have been kicked out of office on his first day for starving the USA of energy and selling to China our Strategic Oil Reserves. He actually thinks his Executive Orders are LAWs. Why even have Congress and the Senate? Who does he think he is Emperor NERO?
What about the middle class taxpayer who is on the hook or this illegal payout for student loans? How do they get back on their feet?
Another stolen election. Thanks Mitch, you back stabber!
If slow joe and his cronies/sycophants can explain WHY this current batch of students are magically more ‘deserving’ to have their loans forgiven* when millions of us had to repay ours, I ‘might’ listen – NOT.
*those loans are not being forgiven, they are being transferred to other people to pay off who got absolutely no benefit from them.