President Biden’s student debt relief plan could help more than 40 million Americans qualify for up to $20,000 in student debt forgiveness. But in two closely related cases, Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, the Supreme Court may side with Republican-led states and two individual borrowers to permanently block the plan from going into effect — despite the fact that the parties challenging the plan likely do not have standing.
An adverse ruling would hurt tens of millions of Americans and disproportionately burden Black borrowers and borrowers of color while opening the floodgates to future challenges to the Biden administration’s policies. The case is the latest example of the Court inventing new doctrines to ensure conservative policy outcomes.
