EXCLUSIVE — The Republican attorneys general leading the legal challenge to President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan are confident their case will succeed after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday.
The case hinges on two questions. The first is whether or not the challengers to the policy can point to a tangible harm and have standing to sue. If standing is granted, then the question becomes whether or not the president was within his legal authority when he announced a plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federally held student loans for borrowers making less than $125,000.
"Both parties, the states in our case, and the private parties in the other case had strong standing arguments," Campbell."The court just needs to get to the merits, and once it gets to the merits, we're hopeful that a majority of the court will find the program was unauthorized." "Under state law in the state of Missouri, the attorney general represents the interests of the state," Bailey said."Since MOHELA is an instrumentality of the state that performs essential public functions of the state, I have authority under state law to be here in that capacity."
"Coming out of the argument we still feel very strong that the state of Missouri is doing what the state of Nebraska could do in another context, which is should be able to sue on [behalf of] these constituent, public instrumentalities," Hilgers said.
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