By Mark Joseph Stern
President Joe Biden is determined not to give the Supreme Court the last word on student debt relief. Shortly after the court struck down his plan to forgive $430 billion in student debt, Biden announced that he will pursue an alternate legal pathway to large-scale cancellation. Although the details remain hazy, it’s clear that the administration will attempt to use its powers under the Higher Education Act—a route that many progressives favored in the first place. The trillion-dollar question, then, is whether SCOTUS will look any more favorably upon this fallback plan. There may be some modest reason for optimism. But as ever with this court, any hope must be tempered with doubt and distrust.
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