The legal fight over President Biden’s plan to forgive billions of dollars of student debt is one of the biggest cases on which the Supreme Court will rule in the next month.
have been raised about some of its members, especially conservative Justice Clarence Thomas.
The relief would have a significant impact, according to Alan Aja, a professor at Brooklyn College in New York who studies racial wealth disparities and signed a brief in support of the administration. The challengers say the language in the HEROES Act is not specific enough to authorize a proposal as broad as Biden’s plan, an argument that conservative justices appeared sympathetic to.
If the administration were to win the case, it would not remove all potential impediments to the plan’s moving forward, as other cases are pending in lower courts, but if the challengers do not have legal standing, it would suggest other people and entities bringing cases are unlikely to do so, either.
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