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Only one side has to play by the rules.
Here we go again. President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code.
Biden has already been rebuked for this practice by the Supreme Court, yet he remains undeterred.
He’s not going to let niggling concerns about the legality of a new half-trillion-dollar program get in the way of an important substantive and political goal.
This is pure executive willfulness unhinged from any commitment to abide by the law or the will of Congress. It is a profound trespass against our constitutional order. It represents a mind-set deeply corrosive of the foundations of our system.
And yet, there’s not a peep from the same people who think democracy and the rule of law are teetering on the brink of collapse, indeed might be extinguished if the 2024 presidential election goes the wrong way