A legal expert blasted Joe Biden earlier this week after the president made another announcement on the campaign trail that his administration planned to forgive more student loans, despite a previous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said the move was unconstitutional.

In June 2023, the nation’s highest court ruled 9-0 in Dept. of Education v. Brown that the Biden administration’s plan to erase up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers and up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants was illegal.

In a separate but similar case, Biden v. Nebraska, the justices ruled 6-3 against Biden’s student loan giveaway scheme.

On the merits of the plan, the Biden administration had relied on the HEROES Act, a post-9/11 law that allows the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs . . . as the Secretary deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency,” SCOTUS Blog reported.

The justices didn’t agree, and ordered the administration to scrap the plan. But in the months since, Biden has essentially said he will ignore the ruling and has continued to announce student loan debt cancellations in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and did so again during a campaign stop in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday.

Biden brags about ignoring the Supreme Court on his scheme to unilaterally cancel student loan debt: “That didn’t stop us” pic.twitter.com/JfWolVGiC0

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Now, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett is taking Biden to task for behaving more like the dictator he claims former President Donald Trump will be should he be reelected.

“They’re inventing a different runaround, the Supreme Court decision. In so doing, Joe Biden is brazenly defying the law, and then he has the audacity, the arrogance to brag about it, admitting recently, yes, the Supreme Court blocked my plan, it’s illegal,” Jarrett said during a “Fox & Friends” segment on Monday.

“But then he said, quote, that won’t stop me. You know, no amount of lawlessness is beyond Joe Biden by dictate. What he’s really doing is shredding the Constitution. He changed his method of loan forgiveness in the latest plan. But the same legal principles that make it unconstitutional, still apply,” Jarrett continued.

“He’s not canceling anything; he’s transferring billions of debt from borrowers to taxpayers, and under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to do that, as the Supreme Court explained in their decision,” he said. “So this is a stunning act of contempt. Biden says he doesn’t care about the separation of powers, the law, or the Constitution. So I sort of ask you here: who’s the dictator? Who’s the threat to democracy?”

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Critics say Biden’s objective is to use taxpayer-funded student loan giveaways to woo back young voters he’s lost.

NBC: Biden is hemorrhaging votes among Americans under 30 pic.twitter.com/vRO4bSUwdb

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The high court has invalidated several iterations of Biden’s proposals for a student loan bailout, and 11 Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit against the version he unveiled in February, Fox News reported.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the new Biden plan is likely to have an impact on 30 million Americans and result in significant reductions in their student debt before the November election.

The main focus of the plan is to reduce the loans that have exceeded their principal amount due to interest. According to WSJ, borrowers would get a relief of up to $20,000 in accrued interest. Additionally, those who make less than $120,000 or couples who make less than $240,000 would be allowed to cut all of the accrued interest beyond the principal amount.

“The result would see roughly 23 million Americans having their loans cut down to the principal amount,” Fox reported.

The plan would additionally forgive debt for borrowers who have retained their loans for decades without completely paying them off. Under this provision, forgiveness would be granted for undergraduate debt held for over 20 years and graduate debt held for over 25 years, as reported by WSJ.

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