This is exactly what I was complaining about last week. Chief Corporate Handmaid Roberts sidestepped the actual statutory rationale behind the debt forgiveness plan and argued that Biden should have to go back to Congress to make sure it was okay to spend that much money. (You know, like they did with Trump’s tax cuts? Ha ha, just kidding! Via Talking Points Memo:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) criticized Chief Justice John Roberts’ fixation on the “fairness” of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan Thursday, which he and his right-wing peers brought up repeatedly during oral arguments earlier this week.
“When Justice Roberts asks about fairness rather than focusing on statutory interpretation or constitutional issues, he’s becoming a super legislator. That’s not his job,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told TPM. “It is not the role of the United States Supreme Court to make those judgements.”
“And that means this Court is trying to pull more power into itself and away from the elected officials whose jobs it is to make those decisions,” she added. “This is not about a Court that is promoting small government. This is about a Court that is promoting big court.”
Standing O, Senator Warren!
