THIS COURT IS THE MOST PRO-BUSINESS AND ANTI-PEOPLE COURT WE’VE EVER SEEN — AND IT MAY PERMANENTLY BLOCK STUDENT DEBT RELIEF

The Court has a pro-business, anti-people record and consistently bends its own rules to serve the interests of key political donors and corporate allies. On February 28, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases — Biden v. Nebraska and Dept. of Education v. Brown — that will determine whether millions of Americans receive aid through President Biden’s student loan debt relief program.

Millions of low- and middle-income Americans are awaiting student debt relief from the Department of Education after conservative-packed district and circuit courts blocked President Biden’s debt relief plan. The debt relief program is expected to especially help people of color and low-income Americans, and up to 20 million borrowers could have their debt totally erased. But the fate of the student debt relief program now falls with the Supreme Court as it hears two cases on February 28: Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. 

The Court has a long record of hostility toward the American people’s needs — last term alone, it eliminated the right to bodily autonomy and handed gun manufacturers a huge win by dismantling a century-old gun violence prevention law. It is also the most pro-corporate Court of all time, and decided more than 83% of business-related cases in favor of corporations in the 2020-2021 term. Time and time again, this Court has proven that it will change rules, abandon jurisprudential principles, and give handouts to corporations when they come knocking on its door. Our memo explores just a few of the ways the Court has thrown people and consumers under the bus to appease corporate interests in recent years: