Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Ruled Unlawful (2)

Nov. 11, 2022, 3:26 AM UTC

A federal judge in Texas struck down the Biden administration’s sweeping student loan forgiveness plan, calling it “one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States.”

US District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of President Donald Trump, sided with two borrowers in Texas who argued the government violated federal administrative procedure in implementing the plan.

“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in an order declaring the policy unlawful. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that ...

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